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Malcolm Cowley Quotes

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1898 - March 27, 1989

Topics

Talent Genius You Possess Possesses

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

More Human Combination Than

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

Communication Beautiful Poetry Saying

There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.

Day Fight People Fighting Every Day

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

Stephen R. Donaldson

Grass Galaxy Everything Blade Dies

In my works, the geography map-wise is accurate - roads are where I say they are, and go from this town to the next as I say they do, and yes, it would take a curricle that long to travel that distance.

Stephanie Laurens

Roads Travel Long Distance Geography

Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.

Travis Bradberry

Leadership Accountability Better You

What happened is, when I was doing 'Taxi,' the last year, we did this thing where we had on top hats and tails, and we pretended to tap-dance. And I said to myself, 'You know, I always wanted to know how to do this.' So I got myself a teacher, and I started studying, and I got hooked.

Teacher Myself Doing Year You Know

I'll never forget seeing 'Guys and Dolls' over and over. I used to sit up in the coliseum watching this magnificent musical. Brilliant.

Never Forget Seeing Forget Brilliant

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

Power Balance Never Without Potato

It's hard for me to get shows in the U.S. It's that simple. I don't know what that means. I think it means there's not as much support here for my music?

Music Simple Support Me Think Know

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

Think Gender Want Understand Minds

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Change World Process Civilization

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