Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
He was himself and he had lost the speedHe started with, and he was left behind.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
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My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!
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I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
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Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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He was himself and he had lost the speedHe started with, and he was left behind.
