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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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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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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Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.
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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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She's just funny about accolades, ... She would say, 'I haven't done anything out of the ordinary.'
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Investors should absolutely look at short interest because short sellers do better homework than buyers of stock. That's for sure.
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
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Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. . . . Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.
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The greater part of instruction is being reminded of things you already know.
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I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.
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You're beautiful as you feel.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
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The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.
