Rita Dove Quotes

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • King
  • Inspired

• When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Night
  • Homeless
  • Minimum Wage

• Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

  

  Mae West
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • Curves

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Great
  • Different
  • Car

• I'm like a sight gag.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Sight
  • Gag

• I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Music
  • House
  • Dance

• It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Believe
  • America
  • Understand

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Why
  • Night

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Health

• I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Enjoy
  • Silence
  • Where

• You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • Know
  • Relationships

• Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • True
  • Football
  • Boys

• Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Proud
  • Feet
  • Lion

• To be honest, it's nothing but a compliment. It's amazing to be compared to them... Vanessa would be Party Spice, I'd say Una would be Feisty Spice, Frankie could be Flirty Spice, and Mollie would be Smiley Spice.

  

  Rochelle Humes
  • Compliment

• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Man
  • Better

• To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

  

  Rita Dove
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