A. R. Ammons Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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I don't do negative things.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I am a Zionist.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I grew up with 'Friends' from day one and, like, 'Seinfeld' and 'Frazier,' those sorts of shows, but for sure, 'Friends' was it for our family. Like, we would watch every Thursday night at eight o'clock; I couldn't wait.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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What really is nasty is showing your back to the Puerto Rican people.
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
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I don't think I can plate-spin, I've turned loads of things down because I just can't get the time to do it.
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It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.
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