Natasha Trethewey Quotes
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
Natasha Trethewey
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn
If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
Octavia Spencer
Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne Dyer
House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll
If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
Patrick Lencioni
I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
Ralph Boston
You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the roadThe roots are deep inside usIt's the rhythm in our soul.
Brian Wilson
If they want a photograph, then just take it.
Keith Emerson
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.
Dante Alighieri
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
Natasha Trethewey