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Billy Collins Quotes

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Voice Perfect Radio Visual

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Good Community Freedom Walk Night

You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont be a healthy relationship.

Relationship Beautiful Feel You Need

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

Hurt You Lose Dignity Matter Low

I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.

People Think You Choose Career Know

If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

Life Job Yourself Succeed You Want

Indeed, there has never been any sort of organised movement of people who take their cats into the outdoors. Of course, the navy often took them on ships, but there they performed a function, mousing for the officers.

Cats People Outdoors Navy Movement

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Breakfast Healthy Now Right Vices

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

Children Parents Chance You Never

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Father Mistake Me World Acting

It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity.

Creativity Nurture Level Been Really

The E.U. is the latest of a series of multinational organizations set up after World War II to ensure that there would never again be a pan-European war and to create the conditions for a new European prosperity after the destruction wrought by the war against the Nazis. The E.U. has admirably succeeded at both.

War World Create New Prosperity Up

Whatever you are studying right now, if you are not getting up to speed on deep learning, neural networks, etc., you lose. We are going through the process where software will automate software, automation will automate automation.

Learning Deep Process Speed Lose

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