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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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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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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I have to say that one person I learned from the most as an actor in my life is Emmy Rossum. She is so insanely talented in the sense that when watching her work, it just turns into watching her speak - it's no longer acting; that's how good she is! She just becomes the person.
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Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.
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In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
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...just as great men are great disasters, overwhelmingly good poets are overwhelmingly bad influences.
