Walter Bargen Quotes

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

Walter Bargen

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• There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • California
  • Building

• I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Proud
  • Part
  • Resistance

• That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Ideas
  • Add
  • Then

• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Why
  • War

• If there are any who believe that immigrants to this country, most of whom have already become British citizens, could be forcibly deported because they are coloured people...then that I must repudiate, absolutely and completely.

  

  Edward Heath
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Past
  • Friend

• Toni: Mamá... MAMÁ! I'm paying peak long-distance rates here. Could you save the Hail Marys until we hang up?

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Long
  • Distance

• Marriage is a great institution.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Great
  • Marriage

• We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • Political

• Augusta is a very unique golf course. It's a long hitters' course; main reason is because the greens are so severe, and the areas where they put the pin is such a small area. The little plateaus and undulations mean it's incredibly important to be close to that pin so you can be aggressive.

  

  Fred Funk
  • Important
  • Long
  • Small

• I would say in one sentence my goal is to at least be part of the journey to find the unified theory that Einstein himself was really the first to look for. He didn't find it, but we think we're hot on the trail.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Journey

• A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • People
  • Trying
  • Lost

• In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
  • Important

• After my second marriage failed... I said, 'You know, could I have a relationship with a man? A loving relationship with a man that would involve intimacy?' For a while, before I did get into a relationship, I saw, for a few years, either women or men. And I found that I could be attracted to both.

  

  Clive Davis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'

  

  Alan King
  • Soul

• If you get involved in a controversy, then that becomes the mesmerizing event that people remember you by.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Remember

• I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Missing

• The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

  

  Silvia Cartwright
  • Rights
  • Luxury
  • Wealthy

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.

  

  Dean Spade
  • Survival
  • Discrimination
  • Arguing

• I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Today
  • Daughter

• You don't get to rehearse much on TV. You are kind of rehearsing on film. Depending on the way you work, that's either a good thing or a bad thing.

  

  Chris Messina
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

  

  Walter Bargen
  • Survival
  • Lessons
  • Tribute