Babette Deutsch Quotes

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
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• Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.

  

  Jack Ma
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  • Nobody
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• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
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• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
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• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Me
  • Idea
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• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Yourself

• In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Society

• I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Never
  • Celebration
  • Pure

• I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

  

  John Madden
  • Teacher

• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Up
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• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Act

• You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Heaven
  • Exist
  • Grieve

• I'm not being like, 'Hey, everybody, I'm pregnant!' I'm not that girl.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Hand
  • Husband
  • Helping

• Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Dark
  • Study
  • Thoughts

• When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.

  

  Edward J. Fraughton
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Structure

• Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks release, and for the creative it can take the form of art.

  

  Eric Gibbons
  • Art
  • Struggle
  • Release

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • Certain
  • Poet
  • Lovers