Cate Marvin Quotes

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

Cate Marvin

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• The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

  

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• Religion and slavery are incompatible.

  

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• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

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• That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

  

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• All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

  

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• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

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• Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.

  

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• It is one of the biggest, best sellers of all time.

  

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• And I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive.

  

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• I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

  

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• Money talks — but credit has an echo.

  

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• We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

  

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• The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take

  

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• I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

  

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• Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed agreements with the ITU, WIPO and the WMO. At first sight, there may not seem to be much common ground between CERN and, say, the World Meteorological Organization, but scratch the surface, and you'll soon find a common thread. All of these organizations have a vocation to stimulate technological innovation, and together we're stronger.

  

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• Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.

  

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• I'm concerned about what happened in South Dakota. The government needs to stay out of people's private lives.

  

  Ed Fallon
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• I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Pay
  • Careers
  • University