Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
Are we no greater than the noise we makeAlong one blind atomic pilgrimageWhereon by crass chance billeted we goBecause our brains and bones and cartilageWill have it so?
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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I went to Cuba maybe eight or nine times.
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
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I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.
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I have been thinking a lot about what we see in villains, how we relate to villains, and what it is about certain villains that we actually empathize with. Like Macbeth. We're not supposed to like a guy who kills the king and takes over, but there's something about him we're really fascinated by.
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Sometimes it's easy to see the negative side of things or question why people bully you. You could think, 'Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm not worth it. Maybe I should just quit.' But that's when you should fight the hardest. Now I don't mean fight physically, but mentally. Keep being you.
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I fought fire with oil.
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I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
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The Bush Doctrine is a prescription for permanent war for permanent peace, though wars are the death of republics.
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
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In the interests of research I have walked on many battlefields that once were liquid with pulped men’s bodies and spangled with exploded shells and splayed bone. All of them have been green again by the time I got there. Each has inspired a few good quotes in its day. Sad marble angels brood like hens over the grassy nests where nothing hatches.
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The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist.
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If I hadn't won at the Worlds and claimed so many ranking points, I would have been struggling for Rio. I'm in a good place now, though, and having the chance to fight for gold in Rio after everything I've been through would be a dream.
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Career politicians like Marco Rubio worry more about keeping the job than doing the job and are constantly looking for their next political promotion.
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I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.
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If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum.
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A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.
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I wouldn't want to do an average fashion line. I'd want it to be an amazing piece of art.
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Are we no greater than the noise we makeAlong one blind atomic pilgrimageWhereon by crass chance billeted we goBecause our brains and bones and cartilageWill have it so?
