Sarah Kay Quotes
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.
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And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
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My biggest weakness as a endurance athlete has been in not drinking enough water after training, thereby racing sometimes while dehydrated.
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If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.
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When you have a good idea, the money flows.
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Diversity is what makes life interesting.
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I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no one you feel more protective of than the very same people who can drive you crazy.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
