Margaret Fuller Quotes
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.
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What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
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My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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You were born as the one you are.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Documentaries deal with people who live real, everyday lives. But if these people trusted us and told us the truth about their lives, it could be used against them - which sometimes happened.
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The great thing about training/exercise is it is non-bias. It changes from person to person, but everyone can still enjoy the benefits.
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I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.
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I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
