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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Every mother wishes the best for her children.
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Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.
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Marriage can be tricky and challenging at times.
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Some people think that - excuse my expression here - that in order to be good Catholics we have to be like rabbits. No. Parenthood is about being responsible. This is clear.
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I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.
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It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
