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.
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.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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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.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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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.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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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.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
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The atmosphere generated by the fans in Celtic's stadium for our visit was the most impressive I've ever witnessed. The grounds of Liverpool and Manchester United are good and the hostile feeling of playing against Real Madrid in the Bernabeu is also excellent, but the atmosphere against Celtic was the best.
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Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.
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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
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There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
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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.
