Randall Jarrell Quotes
What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.

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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
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All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.
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A hundred years ago, when Richard Strauss, who has already been quoted and already been heard today, and other creative people, laid the foundation stone for the joint assertion of their rights and interests, they had pioneering work ahead of them in Germany.
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It was a tough night for us. We can't make any excuses. They were better than us tonight and deserved to win. Considering what all we have been through this year, I am happy with where we are at. Our kids will be okay.
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What to leave out is the first thing the artist has to decide; a painter who 'held the mirror up to nature' would spend his life on the leaves of one landscape. The work of art’s fluctuating and idiosyncratic threshold of attention-the great things disregarded, the small things seized and dwelt on-is as much of a signature as anything in it.