Marilyn Hacker Quotes
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.Marilyn Hacker
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Practice puts brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead -
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller -
Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
Yael Naim -
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby -
The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
Forest Whitaker
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
Patricia McBride -
The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
Yami Gautam -
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze.
Galileo Galilei -
I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham -
Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
If the characters on 'The West Wing' were watching a TV show wherein a character like Trump was leading in the polls, they wouldn't find it believable.
Aaron Sorkin -
Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
Dana Perino -
In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
Lao Tzu -
The greatest of vices according to Buddha is the lazy yielding to the impulses of temperament (pamada); the greatest virtue (appamada) is the opposite of this, the awakening from the sloth and lethargy of the senses, the constant exercise of the active will.
Irving Babbitt
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No man must encroach upon my province, nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without pertinaciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service.
William Godwin -
John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.
Kitty Kelley -
When we first started doing bridal, I found the bridal business very archaic; it was very removed from general fashion.
Jenny Packham -
I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth.
Andrew Forge -
Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.
Marilyn Hacker