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  • Bruce Springsteen Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Billy Collins Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • C. K. Williams Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Sylvia Plath Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Billy Collins Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Allen Ginsberg Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
    Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Basil Bunting Poetry? It's a hobby.
    I run model trains.
    Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
    It's not work. You don't sweat.
    Nobody pays for it.
    You could advertise soap.
    Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Brad Holland Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Politicization means the expansion is slowing up and you are no longer attempting to achieve increased output per capita, or increased wealth, or increased satisfactions... but you are doing so by mobilizing power. We have seen this going on for almost a century....increased militarization.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Winston Churchill Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • George V. Higgins Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
    George V. Higgins
    American author, lawyer and newspaper columnist (1939 - 1999)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Robertson Davies Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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