Randall Jarrell Quotes

...there is in this world no line so bad that someone won’t someday copy it.

Randall Jarrell

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• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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  • Country

• Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Trying
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• I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Want
  • Equality

• As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Long
  • Building

• I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

  

  Fanny Kemble
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  • Done
  • Want

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
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  • World
  • Different

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
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  • Man
  • Humanity

• I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • World
  • Women
  • Opportunity

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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  • Black
  • Youth

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
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  • Up
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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • Music
  • Crazy

• You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

  

  Harry Browne
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  • Power
  • Bad

• Pictures can be devastating. Who allowed John Kerry to get himself photographed windsurfing in a flowered swimsuit? Anyone in the real world in that operation?

  

  Jack Germond
  • World
  • Real
  • Pictures

• I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Believe
  • Terrorism

• Just because you're from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn't mean you don't read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what's going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.

  

  Vera Wang
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  • Women
  • City

• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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  • Friends
  • Help

• Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • People
  • Important
  • Business

• Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
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  • Animal

• I love classical jazz.

  

  SZA

• ...there is in this world no line so bad that someone won’t someday copy it.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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