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All Quotes Collection
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
81
"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after."
55
"For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them."
45
"I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions."
41
"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
56
"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
48
"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
47
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
40
"He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together."
33
"You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent."
30
"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
40
"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
36
"If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life."
37
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
44
"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."
38
"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images."
40
"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
55
"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
47
"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."
35
"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
37
"If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop."
41
"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."
39
"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
36
"A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel."
37
"Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all."
42
"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground."
33
"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream."
37
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
41
"The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts."
50
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