Conrad Aiken Quotes
Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.
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Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
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I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'
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Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
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When my husband Charles passed away in 2000, I took over as chair of our family's foundation. As I was mourning his loss, I also had to keep the foundation moving forward and to chart a course into what was then a very male-dominated philanthropic world.
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In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.
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Walk with me world, upon my right hand walk, speak to me Babel, that I may strive to assemble of all these syllables a single word before the purpose of speech is gone.
