Randall Jarrell Quotes
When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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India may be a land of over a 100 problems, but it is also a place for a billion solutions.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I used to sing in church, too. Not like in the choir or anything, but for people around the church... on the church bus going home and Christmas plays.
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We come from different backgrounds. Some people grow up with money in their pocket, or they have a certain last name; others have nothing. But it comes down to work ethic. That's where we all play on the same playing field.
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Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
