Carl Sandburg Quotes

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Carl Sandburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

Topics

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We want Angolans who have fortunes abroad to be the first to invest in the country, thus demonstrating that they are true patriots.

Joao Lourenco

CountryWantTrueFirstBe The First

In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!

John Badham

LightSpaceCrazyBlackDoingYou

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

John Mica

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What's wonderful about 'Star Trek' having been rebooted so successfully by the J. J. Abrams movie franchise is that - the corollary effect is that it creates a new generation of fans, and they're interested in all of it. They don't just sit around and wait for the next movie to come out; they'll go back and re-examine episodes.

Robert Picardo

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I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

Robert Herjavec

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The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

Masi Oka

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When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.

Marvin Ammori

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I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Mohsin Hamid

SmallAestheticKindWriteYears

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Joyce Meyer

PeacePeoplePerceptionThinkMost

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Alice Walker

LearnConfusedEnemiesDisguiseUs

There's something about using the cinematic device as a tool to connect with dimensions of the world that you don't know too well, you're not too familiar with. It's like a creating a bridge, or a spaceship to travel to the unknown.

Sebastian Lelio

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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

Rick Bragg

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