Simon Armitage Quotes
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I am an ordinary person.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.
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The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.
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If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God.
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It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.
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It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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But we have received a sign, Edith - a mysterious sign. A miracle has happened on this farm... in the middle of the web there were the words 'Some Pig'... we have no ordinary pig." "Well", said Mrs. Zuckerman, "it seems to me you're a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.
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It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.
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Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.
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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
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...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.
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The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
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I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
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The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
