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Allen Tate Quotes

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979

Topics

Men Results Way Practical Interested

When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

Morning Service Travel Take Advantage

How do you talk about the Holocaust? How do you talk about slavery? Probably the best thing to do is just be quiet and hide from it, forget about it. Except, then it jumps up and bites you. Because it's there.

John Edgar Wideman

Best Slavery You Hide Holocaust Up

Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

Good Dreams Children Believe You Go

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

Angry People Suffering Musicians Go

I refuse for any person or organized group to dictate to me what God is. That is really the height of insufferable hubris. I believe in just immediately putting to death or just putting over the cliff people who assume they know about God.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

God Death People Me Believe Person

I learned nothing while I was in school.

Lorraine Bracco

School Nothing Learned While

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

Great Angry Happy Lose Way Always

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I Am Proud Texas Honored Board Both

P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.

Brother Me Feel Act Big Big Brother

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

Bradley Wiggins

Family Man Famous Country Achieve

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over - not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better.

Work Time Looking Back Looking Feel

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Mother Welcome Mom Troublemaker

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