Randall Jarrell Quotes
One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.
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If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.
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Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.
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'...I’m a typical Englishman of my class - a crank idealist.'
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To this day, I like the version of movies that don't have the curse words. I'm very reserved that way.
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One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!
