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Jane Hirshfield Quotes

I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.

Jane Hirshfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1953

Topics

Service I Am Feel Serve Something

The original dream of Facebook Platform was to enable developers to build experiences that were social at their core, like Facebook Photos, without having to build their own standalone social network.

Dream Build Without Own Facebook

Somebody, just because they are black, too, or just because they are trans, too, or just because they're gay and recognize I'm trans, does that mean you have the familiarity to use certain language? And I don't mean with just me but with the community.

Community Me Black Language You Gay

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

Yourself Space Landscape You Need

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

Family Revolution Born Mexico Leave

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Work Talent People Believe You More

Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us.

Douglas Rushkoff

Change Car New Car Data New Know

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

Good Women I Am Tired Good Things

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

Age Writing Singing Voice Singer

My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.

Chesley Sullenberger

Wife Someone Risk Heroism She See

Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment - and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!

Work Creative Chance Environment Get

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Nothing Something Like Happens

My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.

Philip Winchester

American Back Holiday Born London

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