Randall Jarrell Quotes
One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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Our focused customers are small business and young people. We did a great job in China. How can we help those young people in India, in Pakistan, in Africa. If they can use in the same ways.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it's kind of like making a play. You've got this limited environment.
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You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
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The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.
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One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
