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
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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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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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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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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
Valerie Plame
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As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is. ...what we call a subject consists mostly, if not entirely, of its language. If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.
Neil Postman
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If there are a bunch of fruit trees, one can say that whoever created these fruit trees wanted some apples. In other words, by looking at the order in the world, we can infer purpose and from purpose we begin to get some knowledge of the Creator, the Planner of all this. This is, then, how I look at God. I look at God through the works of God's hands and from those works imply intentions. From these intentions, I receive an impression of the Almighty.
Arno Penzias
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I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
Joe Wright
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Only super-efforts count.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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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
