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Carl Sandburg Quotes

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Failure Human Actions Principle

I lost my tolerance for a lot of things I probably should have tolerated.

Tolerance Lost Things Should Lot

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook.

Time Looking Google Things Facebook

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

Success World Expect Town Agent Any

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Love Song Start Trying Find Nice

When I'm sitting at home in the off season and I don't have anything to do, I watch tennis on my computer. It's kind of boring. It's something to do.

Sloane Stephens

Home Kind Sitting Boring Tennis Off

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Diane von Furstenberg

School I Am World Feel America Born

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

Time Growing Up Book Loved Growing

I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

Sports Day I Am Watches You Know

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston Churchill

Communication Time You Back Try

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

Words Story You Find Way First

Success, for me, is that if my son chooses to be a stay-at-home parent, he is cheered on for that decision. And if my daughter chooses to work outside the home and is successful, she's cheered on and supported.

Sheryl Sandberg

Work Success Home Son Daughter Me

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

Scotty McCreery

America You Go Know Want Mess

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