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C. K. Williams Quotes

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 4, 1936 - September 20, 2015

Topics

Father Poetry Me Writing Different

Here's my advice to my brown friends: The next time you're on an airplane in the U.S., just speak your mother tongue. That way, no one knows what you're saying. Life goes on.

Life Mother Time Airplane Saying

If I ever lose a job because I've talked about being an atheist, then I don't want that job.

Stellan Skarsgard

Job Lose Want Atheist Being Because

When we talk about 'Firepower,' we're talking about the fire and power of heavy metal to prevail and endure difficulties. 'Children of the Sun,' is, to some extent, about climate change and the ecosystem... We want to deliver a message to the people without being too much of a teacher.

Change Power Children Teacher Fire

Some of the best bad guys in movies are funny and charming.

Funny Best Bad Movies Charming Some

When you have those two languages - an analytic one like English and a synthetic, very sensual thing like Russian, you get almost a psychotic sense of humanity that permeates nearly everything. It can help you understand, and it can discourage you, because you see how little can be done.

Help Humanity You Done Understand

I have to say, if someone literally said to me, 'You're going off to a desert island, what is the one thing you would bring?' I would say, 'It's my concealer or you can just kill me now.' I've thought this through! Because I would find, like, berries in a bowl and make blush.

Me Desert Thought Someone You Find

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

Christina Aguilera

Wrong Skin Comfortable My Own See

The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.

Inspirational Father Home Back Go

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

War Canada Three Over Quantity Half

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Innovation Health Past World Enough

Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant.

You Want Give Unimportant Public

I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Life Love My Life Want Chicken Her

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