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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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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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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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
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I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.
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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.
