A. R. Ammons Quotes
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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I've had varying luck with comedy in the past, but I'd really like to give that another go. I don't know if I'd chase down a part, but if the right thing came along I could certainly see myself stepping into that zone.
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My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.
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We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.
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America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
