Simon Armitage Quotes
If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
