Randall Jarrell Quotes
...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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I have over 35 tattoos.
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About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
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...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.
