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Countee Cullen Quotes

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 30, 1903 - January 9, 1946

Topics

Help You Soar Earth Must Asset

Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.

Stars Sun Way Imagine Available Get

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Fear Age Vision Myself Food Job

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

God Me Loser Thinks Part Almighty

For years, Israeli and American intelligence agencies assumed that if Iran were to gain the ability to build a bomb, it would be a result of its relationship with Russia, which was building a nuclear reactor for Iran at a site called Bushehr and had assisted the Iranians in their missile-development program.

Relationship Intelligence Building

The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Michael Nesmith

People Control Internet Resources

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Music Passion Culture Me You Know

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

Joseph Stiglitz

Future Efficiency Clearly System Far

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

Book Reading You I Can Write Same

It was a sort of weird, troubled road into acting because I had been a bit naughty in school until I did my Highers, and then I was like, 'Oh, I think I'm going to apply myself and surprise everyone.'

Myself School Road Think Surprise

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Richard Preston

Beautiful Small Woods Trees Tall

I always hated my mole growing up. I even thought about having it removed. At the time I didn't do it because I thought it would hurt, and now I'm glad I didn't.

Time Growing Up Hurt Thought Growing

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Marilyn vos Savant

Enough Person Point Well Get Able

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