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David Lehman Quotes

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

David Lehman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

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Words Meaning Will Right Single

I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.

Joe Trohman

Music Feel Bad Person Become Things

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

Stephen Karam

Good Game Play First Pine Raised

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

Simon Wiesenthal

I Am Bad Know Duty Conscience Up

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

Trudie Styler

Child Who Am I Years Freak Going

When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.

Luke Bryan

Eyes Moment Best Sleep People Look

Having already had one glorious marriage, perhaps I ought to count myself lucky and stop while I'm ahead.

Judith McNaught

Marriage Myself Stop Ahead Lucky

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don Herold

Funny One Thing About Thing Neat

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Debra Wilson

People Tools Only Who Themselves

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Problem Will Real Transport Pay Big

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.

Wyclef Jean

Uncle Grandfather I Was Raised Priest

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Shelley Duvall

People Doing You Plans Tell Helping

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

Sherri Shepherd

Education Feel Say Shame Try Fault