Randall Jarrell Quotes
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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If I am confirmed to this position, my first priority will be to maintain consistency and continuity with the policies established during the Greenspan years.
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Beyonce is the most amazing woman in the world.
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.
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Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.
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Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
