Randall Jarrell Quotes
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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My door is open.
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From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
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In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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W.H. Auden has gone in the right direction, and a great deal too far.
