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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.


Robert Penn Warren

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I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
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MAUREEN DOWD It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
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MARY SCHMICH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
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MICHAEL REAGAN Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it...
AL YANKOVIC I don't think Reagan is primarily funny, and I don't think he's primarily marvelous; he&...
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MCKAYLA MARONEY I fully expect that NASA will send me back to the moon as they treated Sen. Glenn, and if they don&#...
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MORRISSEY Reagan proved deficits don't matter.
DICK CHENEY 'Hustle' is wonderfully enjoyable because all my life, I've made an effort to be with pe...
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L'WREN SCOTT I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o...
ELMORE LEONARD I don't think that we'll support any state that is prepared to discriminate against the citi...
DANNEL MALLOY Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down.
URSULA ANDRESS Twasn't me, 'twas the Lord! I always told Him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where t...
HARRIET TUBMAN Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. W...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give h...
LEWIS GRIZZARD I read a lot of news online, but I like buying a paper because I'll read an article I wouldn'...
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CHARLIE DENT I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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DRAKE I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't...
MICHAEL SCHENKER I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh beca...
PAULA DEEN You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I prac...
MARY ROACH I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caf...
CHANG-RAE LEE I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then ...
LAURYN HILL Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orches...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth....
JOSEPH BRODSKY I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't drink coffee. Starbucks is not going to make any m...
MICKEY ROONEY We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried...
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PAT PAULSEN I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagis...
MAXINE KUMIN If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
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CHADWICK BOSEMAN Fingers crossed, you'll hear a lot more of me.
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DAVID BECKHAM I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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ALLEN IVERSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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PENN JILLETTE I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing yo...
PENN JILLETTE Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex,...
PENN JILLETTE Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point d...
PENN JILLETTE Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
PENN JILLETTE Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
WILLIAM PENN Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
WILLIAM PENN Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
WILLIAM PENN If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.&...
PENN JILLETTE Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
PENN JILLETTE I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosp...
PENN JILLETTE I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
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