Sxip Shirey (Gene "Sxip" Shirey) Quotes
I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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I love dressing up.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
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We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.
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Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.
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I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.
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I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.
