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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"If you can find your perfect job, create one."
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"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."
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"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."
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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."
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"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."
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"Working overtime is an underpaid man's salvation."
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"I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession."
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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."
Thought
"I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks."
History
"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."
Poetry
"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."
Art
"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."
Literature
"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
Technology
"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."
Time
"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."
Work
"A chronicle is very different from history proper."
History
"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."
Literature
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