Amy Lowell Quotes
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-30s. Those who hang on, eventually the mentor drops the disciple, and that's no fun.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of men's social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. Rather we must choose our conception of justice fully recognizing that this is not and cannot be the case.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
