Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.
Elizabeth Bishop
Quotes to Explore
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Jack Levine
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
Adam Davidson
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
Dan Reynolds
Imagine Dragons
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
Yuna
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
Jacob Artist
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.
Sam Cooke
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In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.
P. G. Wodehouse
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
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In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
Aliko Dangote
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
Jane Smiley
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It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.
Big Sean
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I was able to look out the window to see this incredible sight of the whole circle of the Earth. Oceans were crystal blue, the land was brown, and the clouds and the snow were pure white. And that jewel of Earth was just hung up in the blackness of space.
Charles Duke
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I maintain that if you're a novelist and you go into an art museum, you'll come out a better novelist. And if you paint a picture for an hour you're a better actor at the end of it.
John Hawkes
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I need my career. That's what validates me.
Anita Baker
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If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"
Daniel Quinn
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From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.
Elizabeth Bishop
