Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes
Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.
