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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I've never really allowed anyone else to tell me whether I'm good or not.
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While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
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A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.
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I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
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I started 'SNL,' and I became the one who did impressions. I did that, but then I wanted to get an original character on, and that took a long time to get one on that stuck. And then I got Vinny Vedecci on - 'Oh great' - and then it took a couple more seasons to get Greg the Alien on. You have to have some patience.
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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.
