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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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 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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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.
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The lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp!
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We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] were constantly looking for features and looking for ways to get involved with people who were making stuff.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
