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Charles Simic Quotes

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1938

Topics

Others Inside Empty Lighthouse Ships

All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.

Empathy Choose Vulnerability Leverage

Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak.

Humble Waiting People Wait Speak

My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.

Jean Louisa Kelly

Family School New York Think Year

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

Life My Life Everything Going Off

If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of what my mother did and say to my kids, 'Well, if you are hungry enough, you will eat what I put on the table!' I think my kids have an understanding that if they see what their parents do, they should follow, too.

Michael Strahan

Mother Parents Think Understanding

People like 'Crank,' some people like 'Redemption.' I'm just happy to do things that satiate a different part of me, that test me a little bit.

Happy People Me Test Redemption

I've been a professional actor now for 38 years. A long time. And it's wonderful to earn your living doing something that you love. To think people actually give you money for it!

Love Time Money People Think Doing

I love every type of candy. I love Skittles and Reeses. I love it all.

Love Candy Every Type I Love

Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.

Mirror Never Self-Pity Useful Like

When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

People Universe Fall Go Riding See

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

Sharon Van Etten

Years Going Angst Lot Teenage

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.

Day You Just Furnace Stoke

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