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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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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I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.
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It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.
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I grew up in the Fifties, and the majority of people in my class had fathers living at home. I was very aware that I was in the minority. I had a foreign name, and my daddy didn't come and pick me up from school. I felt like an outsider, which probably helped me as an actress.
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I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
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I'm the first from Ethiopia getting 1500-meter world record; that is amazing.
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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.
