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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
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Their peace and their war
Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.Poems, 1913-1956 -
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
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Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
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Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
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Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs.
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991) -
There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
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There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
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There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.
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