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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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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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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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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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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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Words belong to each other.
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Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.
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I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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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.
