Edgar Magnin Quotes
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.
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Affluence means influence.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.
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I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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The timeless moment. - The 'moment' has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
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It should be mandatory that any tax breaks go through appropriate committees and be voted on separately by both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
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Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.
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I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.
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You can trust a crystal ball about as far as you can throw it.
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I liked wearing the '50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.'
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God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.
