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Billy Collins Quotes

It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1941

Topics

People Language Important Duty Whose

I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Music People Think Understanding Up

Christmas to me, obviously, basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something.

Me Basketball Year Back Christmas

I have certain rules that I've established for myself that took a while post-day job to figure out. Everyone says people who freelance or are writers struggle with the structure of it. I'm not allowed to check email before a certain hour. I'm not allowed to run errands during the day. I have to write a certain amount every day.

Myself Day Struggle Job People Run

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

Believe Feel Body Bad Bone Hateful

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.

Future Sacrifice Think Present Worth

DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.

Michael T. Flynn

Technology Today Time Simple People

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

Time Remember Year Lost Industry

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

God Why Years Out Days Expect

My husband and I own a CrossFit Gym. Crossfit is perfect for me because it's always competitive, all the workouts are in a class environment, and it's different every day. It's a constantly varied functional fitness workout done with intensity.

Fitness Day Me Husband Gym Perfect

Facts and particulars annoy me.

Clarice Lispector

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

People Win You Lose Know Games

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

I Am Someone Ridiculous Say Am

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