Rita Dove Quotes

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

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• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Long
  • Law
  • Fashion

• People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Space
  • Sometimes

• Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Passion

• It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

  

  Bud Abbott
  • Home
  • Guy

• You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Work

• I definitely enjoy being in front of people which gives me that exciting immediate rush.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • People

• When I perform, I usually wear wigs because I love them.

  

  Rita Ora

• I can't just sing karaoke; I can't do anything to try to sound like other people. I have to find what I naturally sound like and emphasize that.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • People

• Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy's ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants.

  

  Andrew Greeley

• The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me and pull my legs and arms, so after them Gordon was a piece of cake.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Scary

• To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Culture
  • Health
  • Sports

• There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

  

  James Bovard
  • Power

• I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

  

  Kay Hagan
  • Up

• I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Past
  • Color

• There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • Song
  • Reading
  • Popular

• I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.

  

  Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • People
  • House
  • Comforting

• If someone wants to eat healthy, they can do that and get the sandwich exactly right. I'm so pleased we're able to influence so many people and their eating habits.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Money
  • Perfection

• The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.

  

  Leonard Slatkin
  • Life
  • Different
  • Fall

• The result of this union would be, not the fortuitous result of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of a single thought.

  

  Jacques Ibert
  • Single

• I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

  

  Rita Dove
  • Amazing
  • Happened