A. R. Ammons Quotes
Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I need to be more aggressive, more vocal, be a better defender. I've worked on all those tirelessly.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.
