W. S. Merwin Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
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.
Taylor Dye -
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.
Lata Mangeshkar -
The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
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.
Fedor Emelianenko -
I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
Ed Belfour -
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.
Majora Carter -
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.
Ed Smith
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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!
Dakota Fanning -
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn -
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher -
I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
Adam Jones -
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
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What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.
bell hooks -
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
Nathan Lane -
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
Alice Waters -
So okay, the world through my eyes, what is that world? Well, I see a lot of dirty stuff, and I see a lot of dumb stuff.
Lisa Hanawalt -
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree
W. S. Merwin