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Carl Sandburg Quotes

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fool Happy Look Back Kind See

I'm a combative person, I know I am, and the greatest thing about law school was I learned to fight with my brain. I clarified something to myself. No matter how much you want to live in the white man's world, you either live by what you believe in, or you die.

Live Myself Man Fight School I Am

There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That's what executives want.

Building Want Land Surrounded Fields

The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy.

Value Political Wall Street Nothing

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

Robert Gottlieb

Best Fight You Say Street Company

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.

Work Relationship People Me Personal

Miami is one of these places where diversity is in our blood, where, you know, if you want to go have a Nicaraguan breakfast, a Cuban lunch, and an American diner dinner, you do.

Diversity Breakfast Lunch Dinner You

I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.

Passion Coffee Progress People Ideas

What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.

Father Boss Me Bad Go Run

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

Michelle Alexander

Police Silence Practice Reward Admit

I'm an energy vampire. I just suck off everybody's energy. But I give it back.

Energy Back Vampire Give Off Just

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

Time Think Weird American Young Top

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

Opportunity Struggle Equal

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