W. S. Merwin Quotes
come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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The fact that two-thirds of Americans who work at small businesses will see premium increases because of the health law is devastating news. This is one more in a long line of broken promises from President Obama and Washington Democrats.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.
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Excess is excrement.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.
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come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain
