Randall Jarrell Quotes
Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
Oliver Cromwell
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
Tamra Davis
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
Dan Quinn
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
Ralph Abernathy
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
Vin Scully
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Victoria Justice
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
Damon Galgut
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
Navi Rawat
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I played point guard my whole life.
Zach LaVine
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
Ian McShane
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
Flume
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
Jack Canfield
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
Ted Yoho
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
Laura Vandervoort
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Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.
Sharleen Spiteri Texas
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
Gary Johnson
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I haven't had a big hit record in America since 1987.
Bonnie Tyler
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[My fashion] line is inspired by real people, so I guess you could say it was listening to them, what they need, what they want and then translating that into coming from me.
Zendaya
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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Leland Stanford
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
Randall Jarrell