Rita Dove Quotes

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Rita Dove

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkYouMatterNeverWriteGoing

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

GoodCommunityTrustFinanceWealth

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Robert Mueller

YouLookSaySameCompetenceUnited

It's very hard to uphold individual liberty when the person you're representing is often a crook.

Jed S. Rakoff

YouPersonLibertyHardIndividual

When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

PeopleYouSometimesDifficultWho

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vinci Code,' and it was very difficult for them, but I talked to them before 'Angels and Demons,' and they said the scandal, abuse of power and violence was part of church history, which you can read about in the Vatican bookstore.

Ron Howard

PowerHistoryChurchFriendsDemons

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

Jared Polis

FaithValuesTryBringPublicLot

I love the movies. Everyone always says the same thing about the shared cultural experience, seeing things on the big screen, the church of the cinema... But on top of all that, as a filmmaker, I love having people be trapped in a movie theater, forcing them to watch what I made.

Jon Watts

LoveExperiencePeopleChurchSeeing

Food's delicate. You have to handle it with finesse. You can't just be a big ogre.

April Bloomfield

FoodYouBigHandleDelicateJust

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Pythagoras

AngerRepentanceBeginsFollyEnds

I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

Peter Dinklage

ChildBelieveBornI Was Born

When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Tila Tequila

LiveSchoolHigh SchoolCalifornia

My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

Nicki Minaj

TimeMoneyPeopleMeWorldGoal

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