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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I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.
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She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'
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Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.
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You can have an ankle or shoulder injury, and in six or eight months, you're healed. But if the heart stops for a few moments, that's it.
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The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
