Marilyn Hacker Quotes
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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A lot of people have it tougher than I do.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
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I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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救救孩子……
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I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?
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That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
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Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.
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There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.