Edwin Morgan Quotes
Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
Edwin Morgan
Quotes to Explore
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
Nadia Comaneci
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
Valerie Plame
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin
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I think violence can never be justified.
Abbas Kiarostami
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
Ranbir Kapoor
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
Carl Lewis
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While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.
Chey Tae-won
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My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Lionel Barber
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
Tavi Gevinson
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Religion is hard work. Its insights are not self-evident and have to be cultivated in the same way as an appreciation of art, music, or poetry must be developed.
Karen Armstrong
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That's the only way you can stop a guy like Cam Newton. Hit him. He's unstoppable, so whenever he does try to run like a running back, you got to punish him.
Chris Harris, Jr.
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Translated poetry filled the no-man's-land between my own work and other writers', and I found this fascinating to explore.
Edwin Morgan
