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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."
"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
"The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way."
"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
"I think that, people are people. That's why the way I treat the lady working in the deli who slices my ham is the same way I treat my friend who drives a Chrysler. That's why the way I treat the guy who packs my groceries is the same way I treat my rich friends. Because people are people. Some are rich and some are poor, and they're all people."
Explore more quotes by Kenneth Koch
"I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature."
"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."
"I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not."
"As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry."
"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s."
"I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world."
"When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!"
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