Dana Gioia Quotes
The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us alongto see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.
Quotes to Explore
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I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
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But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.
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When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have my hide.
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“When she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.”
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Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.
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I want to do everything. That's my problem.
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My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun and hand gun there was.
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My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.
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I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.
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Sometimes the very learned and clever can be brilliantly foolish, especially when seized by an apparently good cause.
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Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.
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Thought that is no longer limited, brings experience that is no longer limited.
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The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us alongto see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.
