Alice Notley Quotes
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.
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Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I hate the stereotype of the pitfalls of the child actor. There are so many amazing examples - Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore - of people who have made it through.
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Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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I'll never know how to live, will you?
