W. S. Merwin Quotes
It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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Excellence always sells.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.
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I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.
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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
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In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
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It's an attitude of superiority. We are superior to the rest of life. The Book of Genesis says: 'Increase and multiply and have dominion over the birds of the air and the animals and so forth.' You run it; it's yours; do what you like with it. I don't know how old that text is, but it represents an attitude that probably really got going with the beginning of agriculture. Before that, the hunter-gatherers were gentler people than the agriculture.
