Marguerite Young Quotes
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
Quotes to Explore
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The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce.
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I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.
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The wise are above books.
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Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
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I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.
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My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
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I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.
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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
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When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.
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Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole.
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Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast, When husbands, or when lapdogs, breathe their last.
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He Steve Jobs showed me the boat he was working on … and talked about how he's looking forward to being on it, even though we both knew there was a good chance that wouldn't happen.
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With impassive gaze, Michael, prince of warriors, measured the extent of the disaster, and his keen intelligence penetrated its causes. The armies of the living God had taken the offensive, but by one of those fatalities in war which disconcert the plans of the greatest captains, the enemy had also taken the offensive, and the effect was evident.
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He marvelled again at the effect of projection: how hostile Henry had seemed to him when Patrick was hostile towards everyone; how considerate he seemed now that Patrick had no argument with him. What would it be like to stop projecting? Was it possible at all?
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One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.
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A winning effort begins with preparation.
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There is no time like the pleasant.
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Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.
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The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
