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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. – Rita Dove

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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. – Rita Dove

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove

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Imagination
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing. – Rita Dove

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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. – Lord Chesterfield

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I dont want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on? – George Michael

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I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas. – Saul Williams

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My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. – Kyle Chandler

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A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself. – Arthur Miller

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Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. – Rita Rudner

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Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, were going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it. – Cheryl Tiegs

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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. – H. L. Mencken

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