Allen Grossman Quotes
A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
Allen Grossman
Quotes to Explore
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People take things so seriously.
Dana Ashbrook
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
W. H. Davies
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
Larry David
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
Rachel Roy
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
Nate Ruess
Fun.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
Naftali Bennett
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
Imogen Cunningham
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
Fiona Apple
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Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.
Imelda Marcos
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The perfect date for me would be staying at home, making a big picnic in bed, eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.
Kim Kardashian
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I'm such an old fart that I started buying books on film and TV and radio and music when, for television, the entire shelf of books was only a couple of them. You go into the '70s before you start getting books on TV that you start wanting to collect. And by the time that you get to something like the Brooks and Marsh book it's invaluable. My house got hit by lightning in 1989 and burned down. And I got more than a half dozen Brooks and Marsh books sent to me by friends immediately, as though that's what you need more than clothes or food. That's how treasured that book was.
David Bianculli
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
Emily Yoffe
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A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.
Allen Grossman
