Harold Bloom Quotes
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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If you think people are against you and that you're a target, things will start appearing that way. I just go about my day, and I don't think anyone is out to get me.
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
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A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.
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It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
