Rita Dove Quotes
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There is more to life than show business.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can't do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
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I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
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I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.
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Today, fashion shows are now blogged and broadcast all over the world via social media. By the time the merchandise ships many months later, the newness and excitement has worn off, and in many cases, the customer has moved on.
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I like the gym the best when it's mostly empty.
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If you follow the trend, you'll always be right behind it.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes.
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Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.
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I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less.
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
