A. R. Ammons Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.
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Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
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To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.
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Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.
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What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.
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During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.
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I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.
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SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
