Randall Jarrell Quotes
One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.

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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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Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.