Alicia Ostriker Quotes
The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
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Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?
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For some people, cigarette smoke absolutely disgusts them.
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Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
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As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
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In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
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In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
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The older you get, the better you get to know you body.
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I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.
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I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
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I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken.
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One of the frustrations of someone like Thomas Cromwell is that, before they step into the light of history, and become extremely well documented, they are not known. A king might be well documented but not everyone.
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If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in free governments, it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental law, and to manage and regulate their own internal affairs and domestic institutions.
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Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.
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The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
