Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.
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I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
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We have always been prepared to negotiate with the U.S. government everything that has to do with bilateral relations, on a basis of the strictest mutual respect for the sovereign rights of each country. We will never try to ask the government of the United States to change its economic and political system.
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What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
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Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.
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Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
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Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
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Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.
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Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
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Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.
