Alice Notley Quotes
We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
Alice Notley
Quotes to Explore
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
Mackenzie Astin
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
Bebe Rexha
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
Kate Upton
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
P. J. O'Rourke
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'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
Anthony Burgess
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The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
Anton Chekhov
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I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
Angie Harmon
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I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.
Jenny Han
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Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.
Fred Armisen
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
James Surowiecki
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Cities must be fun.
James Rouse
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Just remember the words of Patrick Henry - ’Kill me or let me live.’
Bill Peterson
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
V. S. Naipaul
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I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.
Phil Jackson
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You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
Vladimir Lenin
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We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
Alice Notley
