Cate Marvin Quotes
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.
Quotes to Explore
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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There is a wind of change, and if there is a wind of change on domestic issues, there is going to be a wind of change on Palestinian issues as well, it's not something done in one leap, it's a triple jump, but it's coming.
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Which is the other reason hip-hop is controversial: People don't bother trying to get it. The problem isn't in the rap or the rapper or the culture. The problem is that so many people don't even know how to listen to the music.
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To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
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No dream is ever to big.
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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.
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It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.
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Every year the Bush administration provides less aid to Armenia than the Congress envisages.
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Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.
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The reason for the lights is simple. Wellesley has very limited open space, and our playing field space is extremely tight. Having the ability to put lights at Reidy would allow us to, really, double the utilization of our primary field.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago.
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You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
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I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.
