Anne Waldman Quotes

We have a motto at Naropa: 'Keep the world safe for poetry.' It's humorous but has some real bite to it. If the world is safe for poetry, it can be safe for many other things.

Anne Waldman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1945

Topics

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Yet the reality is that I'm a stage actor from the Midwest - probably the opposite of a shark agent.

Jeremy Piven

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I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

John Cleese

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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.

Angus Deaton

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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce

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I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

Amy Adams

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Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed.

Steve Jurvetson

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The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.

Martin Rees

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A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Mitch Kapor

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The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.

Jules Renard

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I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.

Julia Roberts

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I don't want to come across as a pretty looking girl. Because it is very easy - wear good clothes, wear good make-up, and you'll look good. I know my abilities.

Disha Patani

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You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

Chuck Grassley

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