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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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.
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But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
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The patriot subordinates himself to his State in order to raise it above all other States and thus, as it were, to find his personal sacrifice repaid with ample interest through the might and greatness of his fatherland.
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
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God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.
