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Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.

Muriel Rukeyser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980

Topics

Poetry World Reality Nothing Modern

There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

Budget Fraud Abuse Defense Waste

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Happiness Compassion Fool Self-Pity

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

Robert H. Schuller

Struggle Man Average Something

I'm good at being funny.

Funny Good Being Funny Being

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Community Culture Poetry Roots Song

My campaign is about getting pets to be more active, and exercise with your animal is a great way for people to exercise. When you're out with your pet, it becomes fun. You don't think of it as a chore. For me, taking my dog out for a walk is very relaxing.

Misty May-Treanor

Dog Great Walk Pet Fun Animal

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Job Me Canada Up Somewhere Would

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Gift Lying Who Like Receive Says

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.

Now More Well Republic Prague Czech

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Austan Goolsbee

Business Small Lawyer Tax Up Income

Would people cheat on climate science? Sure. Because all it is a model into which there are 2,000 variables, and if I want this outcome, I nudge that one up a little and down a little bit, and there you go.

Aubrey McClendon

Science People You Down Go Want

I grew up in a little town in east Texas where it was really not on the table to question certain things like whether you should eat meat or not.

Richard Linklater

Texas You Table Question Eat Meat

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