Randall Jarrell Quotes
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Randall Jarrell
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
Natasha Leggero
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'Giving 2.0' frames giving as a learning experience and encourages everyone to make giving a part of your year-round life.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
Ed Greenwood
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
Olga Kurylenko
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Yoko Ono
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
Ramez Naam
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
Viggo Mortensen
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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When people rely on cash instead of credit, they're more aware of their spending and end up automatically cutting back by about one-third.
B. R. Hayden
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To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel de Unamuno
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I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
John Cameron
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
Wallace Shawn
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Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has allowed me to recover the feeling I had when I was a little kid, when I was writing stories for fun or drawing pictures for my parents to put on their refrigerator. It was about playing and doing something fun, and kind of making your own little world. And that's how art should feel for me, and how having a little bit more distance between my ass and the ground has helped me.
Will Sheff
Okkervil River
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Randall Jarrell
