Paul Muldoon Quotes

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

Paul Muldoon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1951

Topics

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I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

Jo Brand

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Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'

Jessica Mitford

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

John Dalberg-Acton

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I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

Mayim Bialik

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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

Tom Steyer

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Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.

Rose Leslie

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'The Man Who Loved Children,' Christina Stead's masterpiece, remains the most fabulous book that hardly anyone I know has read.

Jonathan Franzen

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The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

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Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with.

Bruce Vento

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The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees?

Brad D. Smith

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I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

Bryan Batt

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