Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
