W. S. Merwin Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.
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Our country has made a promise to our veterans: if you serve your country, then 'we've got your six.' We will have your back for life. I will always fight for the more than 250,000 veterans here in Arkansas.
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The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.
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On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
