Lauren Groff Quotes

I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.

  

  Saina Nehwal
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• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
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• Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
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• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
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• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Thinking
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• I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Heart
  • Guy
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• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
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• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
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• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
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• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

  

  T-Pain
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• I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!

  

  Rain
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• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
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• I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

  

  Vin Scully
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• When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Up
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• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Strong
  • You
  • I Can

• There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• I am a person beset with fears, and one of my fears is that this thing that I will be writing for five years won't work. And the likelihood, of course, is that it won't - and that's fine.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Work
  • Writing