Anne Waldman Quotes

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

Anne Waldman

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• I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

  

  Barney Ross
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  • Alone
  • Blue

• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
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  • Moving
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• When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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  • You

• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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  • Challenges

• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
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  • Freedom
  • Silence

• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
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  • Singing
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
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  • Live

• Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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  • Time
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• Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.

  

  Safak Pavey
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  • Women
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• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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  • Believe

• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

  

  Randy Quaid
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  • You
  • Stick

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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  • Girl
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• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
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  • Family
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• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Love
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• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
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  • Dream

• Growing up, I was brought up around Irish music, Irish traditions.

  

  Tyson Fury
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  • Music
  • Growing

• Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.

  

  Edward Hoagland
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  • House
  • Night

• If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.

  

  Daniel Goleman
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  • Present
  • Practice

• I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

  

  Brett Somers
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• I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

  

  Christopher Koch
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• I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

  

  Anne Waldman
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