W. S. Merwin Quotes
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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Knowledge is encoded in models. Models are synthetic sets of rules, and pictures, and algorithms providing us with useful representations of the world of our perceptions and of their patterns.
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I've been working with Pat Robertson on Africa debt-relief, and we disagree on virtually everything except certain very specific, inalienable rights, and the truth is that morality and patriotism come in all shapes and sizes.
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The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
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I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
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An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
