Randall Jarrell Quotes
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I think I need security.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.
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Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.
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I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
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There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.
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I grew up shopping from farm stands. Dad taught me how to smell a good cantaloupe and thump a watermelon for ripeness.
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It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
