Emily Haines Quotes
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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My name is Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown. I am a devoted servant of Allah, and an unwavering devotee to His cause. For more than 30 years, I have been tormented and persecuted by my enemies for reasons of race and belief.
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I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
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Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
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Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
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When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.
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That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a certain nudity in poetry. It's not about showing my soul, it's about observations.
