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Don Marquis Quotes

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1878 - December 29, 1937

Topics

Blame Feel Luxury Right Us Else

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.

Good Time Yellow Without Typewriter

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

Love Beauty Truth Art People World

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

Morning Day Night Think Friday Down

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

Work Me Feel Artist Body Living

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

Music Someone Mission Way Kid Out

I'm fully and completely convinced that the 'Hour of Power' is a step in leading people to a fuller understanding of who Jesus is. I can't tell you how many people have watched the 'Hour of Power' and say, 'Now I feel confident to be able to go to a church'... That's what the 'Hour of Power' does.

Robert A. Schuller

Power Step People Confident Church

What is Obamacare doing? It's destroying the only kind of plans people without insurance ever get. And nobody seems to be noticing except the people who are being canceled and then can't find a replacement because it's too expensive.

People Doing Insurance Find Nobody

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

Law Think Interesting I Can Tax

It's my goal to show the world that Americans know how to help Americans without expecting the government to come riding in on a white horse and save the day.

Day Government World Horse Help

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Strength Power Best Small America

I never coast through a workout. This is been great for me physically, but it's also become a problem in two ways. One is that no matter how I'm feeling on a given day, I will absolutely kill myself in the gym, and it takes a huge amount of energy do that. I commit 110 percent. The other problem is that finding a workout partner is impossible.

Great Myself Day Me Energy Partner

When I was 12, I used to be the best friend of the most beautiful girls, but just the best friend. They would always come to me to cry about a guy who broke their heart, and I would just be sitting there thinking, 'I wish I was the guy and not the best friend.'

Friend Heart Beautiful Best Me Wish

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