Randall Jarrell Quotes
...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..
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I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
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Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
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Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
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...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.
