Ada Limon Quotes
And I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.
Ada Limon
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My work is made on lines similar to those of a film production. A lot of my work is kind of bureaucratic, endlessly phoning up people, trying to find the cameraman and the lighting man, because I am a total technology-phobe, quite helpless with equipment.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
Harold Brodkey
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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
Dan Simmons
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In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
Annie Proulx
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That there is pain and evil, is no ruleThat I should make it greater, like a fool.
Leigh Hunt
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
Elie Wiesel
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
Jeanette Winterson
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I have never understood the clamour for waif-like women whose flesh acts merely as a thin veil for their bones - much as I would love to be thinner, I would hate to take it so far that I had no actual shape at all.
Clare Balding
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My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.
Donatella Versace
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Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.
David Neeleman
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Anne Stevenson
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The 'Mahabharata' is a more complex and longer saga than the 'Ramayana,' which is like a fairy tale. It's much lighter and more fun, and at its heart, there's a cracking love story.
David Farr
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The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One must always have in mind one simple fact - there is no literate population in the world that is poor, and there is no illiterate population that is anything but poor.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.
Gabrielle Roth
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As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
Mike Mills
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I miss them so much. They're always with me, on every stage.
Omara Portuondo
Buena Vista Social Club
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And I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.
Ada Limon
