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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In 1972, Idi Amin expelled 80,000 Ugandan Indians and confiscated their 4,000 properties. Now, after returning those properties to their rightful owners, we have ensured that security of persons and property are guaranteed under the constitution.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.
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Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?
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I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.
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On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
