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"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
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"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."
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"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
Being
"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
Creativity
"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading
"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
Will
"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living
"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were."
Poetry
"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
Poetry
"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want
"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
Being
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