- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.
- Initiative
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think you always have to keep your eye open and take advantage of anything that may come your way.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020