Robert Frost Quotes
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
Olympia Dukakis
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
Foster Friess
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
Ibrahim Hooper
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
Walter Kirn
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
Ferdinand Mount
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
Malala Yousafzai
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Omar Bongo
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
Xavier Rudd
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
Harlan Coben
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
Daniel Boulud
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
Sabrina Carpenter
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
Dan Hill
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray
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I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.
Carl Brashear
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish
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Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
W. H. Auden
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Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
C.D. Wright
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Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
David Shields
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Robert Frost