Robert Frost Quotes
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went through the ice, one of my sled dogs saw me go under, and she got the rest of the team, and they pulled me out of 12 feet of water. I think that dogs offer the only form of unconditional love that's available to humans.
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You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
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I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
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I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
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There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.
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I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day....
