Anne Waldman Quotes

I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.

Anne Waldman

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Time
  • Him

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Self

• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Dress

• Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Remember
  • Today

• Anyway, there's plenty of room for doubt. It might seem easy enough, but computer language design is just like a stroll in the park.Jurassic Park, that is.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Doubt
  • Design

• I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

  

  Marc Jacobs
  • People
  • Believe
  • Women

• Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Men
  • She
  • Sweet

• I am sick as a horse.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Sick
  • Horse

• The natural philosopher Heraclitus said that man is naturally irrational. If this is true, as it is true, then everyone who enjoys futile glory should hide his face.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • True

• It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • People
  • God
  • Relationship

• I think it's very important for America that we're represented as promoters of peace, love, and understanding.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Important
  • America
  • Peace

• In the beginning, the media was calling me a bad boy all the time because of the way I act and feel onstage. None of them have ever taken the time to get to know me when I climb offstage.

  

  Bobby Brown
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Taken

• Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.

  

  Marshall Herskovitz
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Marketing

• I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken word poet.

  

  Anne Waldman