Rita Dove Quotes

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Rita Dove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 28, 1952

Topics

BookLibraryChooseFeelingPlace

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.

John C. Mather

SuccessMusicHistoryArtChallenge

Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way.

Robert Greenwald

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Communicators need to figure out how well do they engage people, and they should not talk one word longer than people are engaged.

Andy Stanley

PeopleOne WordTalkNeedOutWell

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Mercedes Ruehl

NatureChooseWillTransgenderWho

It is truly not fun to be the family that sticks out in an all-white community. On the other side, I have five brothers and sisters; we all look exactly the same, and we're very, very tight. The lessons about race were not pleasant, but there are things that I loved about my childhood.

Soledad O'Brien

FamilyCommunityChildhoodFunLoved

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

Tom Wilson

LiveYouWithoutWithinDaysIncome

Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word.

Rooney Mara

CharacterBlackJust BecauseShe

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

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Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

Apolo Ohno

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It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

Alisher Usmanov

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Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong.

William Scranton

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There are a whole lot of historical factors that have played a part in our being where we are today, and I think that to even to begin to understand our contemporary issues and contemporary problems, you have to understand a little bit about that history.

Wilma Mankiller

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