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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We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.
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I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS.
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When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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The difference is no less real because it is of degree.
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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.
