Edward Hirsch Quotes
The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.
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Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
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Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.
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I had left all I had including my job because I had a desire to work in the movies. I didn't have a place to stay. You know there is a limited amount of time you can spend with friends because you're barging into their house. So I spent a couple of days on Marine Drive benches in the company of some of the largest rats I have seen in my life.
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If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
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Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.
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It's only been two games. We've been through ups and downs with every player over minutes. That's just a natural thing on any team. We still have good chemistry and a good group. We just need to win a couple of games.
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There’s no evidence that women are actually happier at home. In fact numerous studies show that working moms are happier and more fulfilled than stay-at-home moms.
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When I was younger, I was an avid science girl. I was all about, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even when I graduated, I was like, 'I'm going to be a doctor.' Even though I did acting and I was in plays and drama clubs in high school and college, I still didn't think I was going to take it on as a career.
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The poem is an act beyond paraphrase because what is being said is always inseparable from the way it is being said.
