Leslie Cockburn Quotes

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

Leslie Cockburn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 2, 1952

Topics

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I want my paintings to look like they were found in a garage. If they get a scratch or a hole in them, it just becomes part of the painting.

John Mellencamp

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Robert H. Schuller

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

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I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.

Amber Mark

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Sri Aurobindo

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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art.

Sol LeWitt

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I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.

Tom Stoppard

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Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich

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Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

Loretta Lynn

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Food and energy account for a significant portion of household budgets, so the Federal Reserve's inflation objective is defined in terms of the overall change in consumer prices.

Janet Yellen

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I've never felt any particular desire to be married.

Cindy Gallop

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My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

Arthur Blank

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