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Wendell Berry Quotes

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

Wendell Berry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: August 5, 1934

Topics

Good Past Better Bad Escape Strive

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Joe Gebbia

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Jennifer Hyman

Trust Best Team Values Intentions

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Mia Goth

Work Good Character Myself Best Bad

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

Steve Breen

Work Pen India Ink Like Brush

I wish I were tall, like my friend Lee Kwang Soo.

Song Joong-ki

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Man I Am Alive Know Nothing Wisest

I look at 'Straw Dogs' as a very imperfect movie. It's a little bit slow, and its themes are a little bit murky.

Rod Lurie

Slow Look Dogs Little Straw Movie

As much as I am very critical of Ariel Sharon in the first Lebanon war, I think that he was the right person at the right time in the right place as prime minister. He made a series of very significant decisions, not one of which was popular or seemed justified at the time.

Ronen Bergman

Time I Am War Right Person Think

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Good Small Talk Small Talk Talker

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

Julia Roberts

Snow Today Science People Youth

I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Truth Science Light Soul Medical

My husband had a stalker, briefly.

Claire Messud

Husband Had