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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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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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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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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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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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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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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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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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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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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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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 one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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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.
