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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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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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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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
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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.
