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Kenneth Koch Quotes

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 27, 1925 - July 6, 2002

Topics

Strange Ordinary Well Travelling

The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

Work Darkness Step People Reach You

God, I just love 'A Journey to the End of the Millennium,' by A. B. Yehoshua. My favorite novel by an American Jew is probably 'Humboldt's Gift.'

Love God Journey Gift End American

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

Work Better Others Make Most Lives

You don't meet many comics who came from rich families or were captain of the football team and had a nice car.

Car Football Team Rich You Nice

Voting is our right, but it is also our responsibility because if we don't take the next step and elect leaders who are committed to building a better future for our kids, other rights - our rights to clean air, clean water, health, and prosperity - are placed directly in harm's way.

Future Health Water Responsibility

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

Coffee Quality Healthy Soil Come

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Live Time Together Remember Lose

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

Present You Measure Argument Way

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

Losing Short Talking Attention Lose

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.

Education World Computers Process

Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'

Me Attention Look I Can Kid Always

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

Past Fame Never Fortune Dreaming

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