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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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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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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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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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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Picasso was telling Madame C- that he could paint anywhere and anyhow. That nothing in the world could stop him. That even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit. He said he could paint then and there if he wanted to, or if he felt like it.
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Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
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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.
