Randall Jarrell Quotes
How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
F. Murray Abraham
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Walter Savage Landor
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
Sam Donaldson
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
Karen Salmansohn
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
Rahm Emanuel
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
Kapil Dev
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
Mackenzie Davis
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo
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I have always liked a challenge.
Damon Hill
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
Galen Rowell
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
Ted Dexter
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
Carly Fiorina
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
S. J. Rozan
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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
Rachel Kushner
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.
David Crystal
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I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.
Jodi Kantor
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There is something exciting when you see people who are very formal talking with each other, and there is a sense that they have chosen to be that way. There is something masked that is more interesting to me than just people who are intent on displaying their uniqueness or whatever.
Bill Pullman
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In a triathlon, it's all about cycling in the most efficient manner. You need to save your energy for the run at the end, so you want to ride really efficiently and not waste your energy. The only way to do that is to spend a really long time on the bike.
Jonathan Brownlee
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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
Randall Jarrell