Basil Bunting Quotes
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
Wallace Shawn
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
Walter Kirn
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
Florence Henderson
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
Caitlin Moran
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
Cam
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
Barbara Cook
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
Malcolm D. Lee
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
Zach LaVine
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
Saint Ignatius
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
Irving Fisher
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
Fleur East
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Sam Jaeger
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda
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But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
C. S. Lewis
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish
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In science, one tries to say what no one else has ever said before. In poetry, one tries to say what everyone else has already said, but better. This explains, in essence, why good poetry is as rare as good science.
Anthony Zee
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My mentor made me say a poem over and over. 'Stop! That's not your voice. Start again.' I was sobbing by the end, but it drilled into my head that my voice is important.
Jamila Woods
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Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.
Basil Bunting