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James Tate Quotes

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1943 - July 8, 2015

Topics

Start Think Next Ordinary Happens

I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

People Loved Strategy Long Lost Act

And we should be a welcoming nation. Our identity is not based on race or ethnicity, it's based on a set of shared values. That's American citizenship.

Identity American Citizenship Values

RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work.

Work Time Serious Something Going

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

Work Me Tactics Writer Use Pathos

I work every day from 9:30 or so until lunchtime. In the afternoons, I become a normal person - go shopping and do the garden and look after my grandchildren.

Deborah Moggach

Work Day Shopping Every Day Look Go

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.

Space River You Place Looks New

I think the fact that 'Black Lightning,' 'Luke Cage' and 'Black Panther' have each made noise in their own way will only lead to different superheroes and different genres.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Black Think Will Way Cage Noise

The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.

Work Math Quantum Relativity General

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.

Brian Behlendorf

Good Opportunity Hope Society Why

In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge.

Anthony Levandowski

Funny Challenge Competition Cool Mom

I need to put myself out in the world and be brave and be uncomfortable. When I do, it means I can enjoy life so much more.

Annabelle Wallis

Life Enjoy Life Myself Brave World

Rao Ramesh always gives his best shot in all his movies.

Best Movies Always Shot His Gives

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