Alan Seeger Quotes

I hope you see the thing as I do, and think that I have done well, being without responsibilities and with no one to suffer materially by my decision, in taking upon my shoulders, too, the burden that so much of humanity is suffering under, and, rather than stand ingloriously aside when the opportunity was given me, doing my share for the side that I think right. . . .

Alan Seeger

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• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Success

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Way
  • Like
  • Sports

• I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.

  

  Becky G
  • Want
  • Universe
  • Understand

• You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.

  

  Majel Barrett
  • Funny
  • Amazing
  • Star

• I've always looked old for my age.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Age
  • Always
  • Old

• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
  • Joy
  • Acting

• Don't get me wrong – I love books! I just think a video has a bigger bang when it comes to a good, old-fashioned adrenaline rush.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Books
  • I Love
  • Wrong

• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Movies

• What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Style
  • Japanese
  • Sensual

• The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Child

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

  

  James Gleick
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Technology

• In the Children's Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk.

  

  Ben Dolnick
  • Children
  • Drunk

• A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Good
  • Stop

• Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.

  

  Duffy
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• Hillary Clinton was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She’s talking to me.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Trying
  • She

• I haven't always made the right decisions.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Decision

• I hope you see the thing as I do, and think that I have done well, being without responsibilities and with no one to suffer materially by my decision, in taking upon my shoulders, too, the burden that so much of humanity is suffering under, and, rather than stand ingloriously aside when the opportunity was given me, doing my share for the side that I think right. . . .

  

  Alan Seeger
  • Decision
  • Burden
  • Responsibilities