Quotes with clear-eyed

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  • Ezra Pound I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alan Greenspan I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Angela Merkel I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Arthur Laffer I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Angela Carter I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Edgar A. Guest I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example's always clear.
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  • Bernard Cornwell I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Cher I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner I've exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the last three years. For the most part, these communications took place before my marriage, though some have sadly took place after. To be clear, I have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Billy Collins If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Butler If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Woody Allen If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Nadine Gordimer If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bill Clinton If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
    Source: The Clinton Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches with Commentary
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Capper If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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