Quotes for 1/12/2012

• I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. (John Ashbery)
• So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning (John Ashbery)
• I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. (John Ashbery)
• I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience. (John Ashbery)
• I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. (John Ashbery)
• A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability. (John Ashbery)
• Where Shall I Wander (John Ashbery)
• The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. (John Ashbery)
• He's trying to recapture the glories of the past, and he is doing it through basketball. He was once a superstar. He fell away, and now he's trying to make a comeback. He's trying to get what he couldn't get in the courts and couldn't get at the ballot box. (Richard Barrett)
• You're supposed to get out of a wheelchair. They want you to get up and get around. (Richard Barrett)
• I've never seen anything like it, ... We feel very lucky to be in the city of Jacksonville. (Richard Barrett)
• We keep track of the number of hits. Starting three weeks ago, we started to get hundreds of thousands of hits. We've been wondering why, but I guess we know now. (Richard Barrett)
• Most companies are looking for a 12-month return on investment, or payback in the same fiscal year. It may be that the price point is too high. (Richard Barrett)
• I didn't know he had cornflakes (Richard Barrett)
• [The event is being called] Killen Appreciation Day, ... It's an old-fashioned Mississippi homecoming. It's held for sports figures and beauty queens. Why not political prisoners? (Richard Barrett)
• The benefits of being a global supermarket have not been realized. And everyone in the corporate world has been sensitized to potential conflicts. Now people are seeking value in other ways. (Richard Barrett)
• I made it clear to him, if he wanted to join the Nationalist Movement, not to hold the April 29 event. (Richard Barrett)
• He wants to have more impulsive activities. We are more methodical in how we do things. (Richard Barrett)
• As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary. (Rooney Mara)
• I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. (Rooney Mara)
• I am one of 40 grandchildren. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. (Rooney Mara)
• I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups. (Rooney Mara)
• I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world. (Rooney Mara)
• I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most. (Rooney Mara)
• I grew up in a little cul-de-sac in the suburbs and went to public school. I went to Costco on the weekends. (Rooney Mara)
• I looked on YouTube for sleep deprivation and there were videos of people experimenting with staying awake for a while. You saw all the different stages. (Rooney Mara)
• I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old. (Rooney Mara)
• I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming. (Rooney Mara)
• If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson. (Rooney Mara)
• It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail. (Rooney Mara)
• Just because the character listens to an iPod and wears black nail polish, she's goth. That was just a misused word. (Rooney Mara)
• My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first. (Rooney Mara)
• Now I literally roll out of bed and put on whatever is there. I have really enjoyed being a boy this last year. (Rooney Mara)
• One of the things that make our version that much more heartbreaking is that even though I am playing a 24-year-old I look much younger. I look like a child. (Rooney Mara)
• The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that. (Rooney Mara)
• There were certainly things I was scared to do, but I never thought I wasn't up for the challenge. (Rooney Mara)
• There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out. (Rooney Mara)
• What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. (Rooney Mara)
• The soft economy -- and regulations which our competitors don't face -- have combined to force us to cut expenses and jobs (William Michael Daley)
• shortchange Americans by cutting tens of millions of people out of the presidential debate audience. (William Michael Daley)
• I think that 'strong' and 'decisive' are never words that are used for any vice president. A vice president's role is to play the second position. (William Michael Daley)
• They really don't care about who is the chairman of the campaign; they don't care about who's the campaign manager. They care about who's going to be the next president. (William Michael Daley)
• Without being certain of the results in Florida, we simply cannot be certain of the results of the national election (William Michael Daley)
• But this race is simply too close to call, and until the recount is concluded and the results in Florida become official, our campaign continues. (William Michael Daley)
• I've been in politics a long time, and I don't think there's ever been a night like this one. (William Michael Daley)
• I don't think you play it safe. I think you try to be very natural and lay out in a forward way the compelling reasons for the election going your way (William Michael Daley)
• We need Congress to consider financial relief (for businesses) to make it more competitive (William Michael Daley)
• We've made great progress (William Michael Daley)
• It is time to end these tactics and move ahead with what we all want, which is a timely count of these votes (William Michael Daley)
• Our legal team has concluded the ballot was unlawful, ... I assume that this is an issue that will end up in dispute. (William Michael Daley)
• Contrary to claims being made this morning by the Bush campaign, this election is not over (William Michael Daley)
• If, at the end of that process, George Bush is the victor, we will respect the result. (William Michael Daley)
• We continue to explore the possibilities of what can be done to remedy the unfairness of thousands of residents of Palm Beach County who believed they were voting for Al Gore, but had those votes calculated for Pat Buchanan, ... Our legal team has determined that the ballot in Palm Beach County was unlawful. (William Michael Daley)
• We've asked the lawyers to work overnight to draft some documents, and we'll be back in the morning. (William Michael Daley)
• He knows that he can't solve a lot of the world's problems. He can't solve AIDS, he can't solve the global warming problem, but he can feel and make sure that people's quality of life is addressed by the city government (William Michael Daley)
• We were always involved, ... Rich was active in the ward organization, the 11th ward organization, which was the base of my dad's politics. There were actual people who went door to door on election time. Rich would be one of them. (William Michael Daley)
• Vice President Gore and Senator (Joe) Lieberman are fully prepared to concede and to support Governor Bush if and when he is officially elected president. (William Michael Daley)
• There are three debates and I think the American people are going to make a decision after they see all three formats (William Michael Daley)
• There were differences. It was ironic that the governor talked about foreign policy and basically supported every foreign policy endeavor of the Clinton-Gore administration ... it's pretty easy to know something about foreign policy when you agree with the other guy the whole time. (William Michael Daley)
• He's been out there campaigning, and he knows the American people don't want that. They've heard nothing but slashing and attacking from Republicans for eight years. (William Michael Daley)
• The American people will have a unique opportunity to see in different formats both of these candidates, one of whom will be the next president of the United States. (William Michael Daley)
• More voted for Al Gore than Gov. Bush (William Michael Daley)
• Gov. Bush should follow the example set by his father and by Bob Dole and participate in the universally broadcast Presidential Commission debates. The American people come first, and the bipartisan Presidential Commission debates will reach the largest possible number of viewers. (William Michael Daley)
• not just a victory for Al Gore and his millions of supporters. It is a victory for fairness and accountability in our democracy itself. (William Michael Daley)
• If the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory in Florida and should be the next president of the United States (William Michael Daley)
• People will begin to see the strength that's in Al Gore (William Michael Daley)
• Well, look the votes are there in the Senate to pass this if the leader would call it. There's no question the votes are there. Plenty of Democrats and Republicans. And they shouldn't play politics with this issue. (William Michael Daley)
• l can give them the assurance as I work with them that this campaign will be sensitive to their issues and their concerns, ... They're a major piece of this campaign. More important than what I can do, they know that Al Gore represents working men and women. (William Michael Daley)
• They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way. (William Michael Daley)
• that we listen to the clear rule of law and not turn our back on it. (William Michael Daley)
• Governor Bush said that under our system of government the legislative branch passes the laws, the executive branch administers the law. Unfortunately, he left out one important branch of our government, the judicial branch, which has the responsibility of interpreting our laws and reconciling conflicts between statutes. (William Michael Daley)
• This year we'll be working with businesses and with states and localities to identify barriers in their laws (William Michael Daley)
• But I am optimistic we will pull it out. I am optimistic Congress will do the right thing (William Michael Daley)
• To be frank with you, without their efforts, our chances of winning are slim to none. (William Michael Daley)
• We believe the opposite is true, ... The more China opens its markets, the more its domestic industries will be able to compete. (William Michael Daley)
• At this point I would say that it's a game of addition, and that's what we're trying to do: add to the numbers (William Michael Daley)
• The governor did make, in our opinion, serious errors. His record in Texas is squarely on the table for the public. (William Michael Daley)
• The greatest cost to our economy is behind us (William Michael Daley)
• With the first album, the timing wasn't right and it wasn't a good situation. The situation is perfect now. (Jamie Foxx)
• The movie set everything up and people are more accepting now. (Jamie Foxx)
• The good thing is that it's not forced. (Jamie Foxx)
• If people dig the music, it will do well, and if they don't -- well, I won't do an album for another 10 years. (Jamie Foxx)
• [On fellow Oscar winner Sidney Poitier:] 'I saw you once and I looked into your eyes and there was a connection.' He said, 'I give to you responsibility,' and I'm taking that responsibility tonight. Thanks, Sidney. (Jamie Foxx)
• We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard. (Jamie Foxx)
• In tribute to his grandmother] She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. (Jamie Foxx)
• And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you. (Jamie Foxx)
• [In tribute to his grandmother] She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you. (Jamie Foxx)
• The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you're real. (Jamie Foxx)
• I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling, (Jamie Foxx)
• Fortunately now, I may not be doing 'Booty Call 2 (Jamie Foxx)
• If Fantasia does the movie it's completely in the stratosphere. It's nuts (Jamie Foxx)
• With the first album, the timing wasn't right and it wasn't a good situation. The situation is perfect now. The movie set everything up and people are more accepting now. The good thing is that it's not forced. If people dig the music, it will do well, and if they don't -- well, I won't do an album for another 10 years. (Jamie Foxx)
• When I first shook Stanley Williams' hand, I knew that he was innocent and that we'd be connected until he was either executed or he died in San Quentin. I was disappointed by the way (court authorities) kept their distance because I don't think anybody wanted to get to know him. Once you did know him, you couldn't kill him. (Jamie Foxx)
• I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act. (Jamie Foxx)
• People thought he was a [jerk] because he'd tell them to shut up, ... Really, if you can't see then there is no way to tune it out. (Jamie Foxx)
• Can I just tell you that I am having the ride of my life right now? I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other a whole lot more. (Jamie Foxx)
• They were more like, 'How was it on the mountaintop?' and I'd sit down and tell 'em, ... 'Wow, you can't believe this! There was Clint Eastwood over there and this other person over there. (Jamie Foxx)
• As a kid, the first thing you got was your military men. You set yourself up in the sandbox and go to war. Then you grow up watching John Wayne movies and then 'Top Gun' and 'A Soldier's Story.' You get into them because they [star] your favorite actors. It's the absolute thrill of how war's depicted. The thought of violence is intriguing to kids. War is fascinating to young men, and attractive. (Jamie Foxx)
• We Dont Live Here Anymore. (Jamie Foxx)
• I look forward to working with the NAACP in bringing immediate and ongoing aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina was a heart attack that revealed a long history of social illnesses. You can't be human and watch all these different things go down and not do anything, ... People from all over the world are looking at these images and saying, wow; we just really want to help. So at the end of the day it's all of us. (Jamie Foxx)
• because I'm a Shaq fan. (Jamie Foxx)
• right underneath his fingers. (Jamie Foxx)
• Things have changed since last year (Jamie Foxx)
• In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. [In Miami] everybody is looking at you. (Jamie Foxx)
• They got the boats blowing up, they blowing up buildings, ... They got people strapped with C-4. You got people lying in the middle of the street getting hit with Mack trucks. It's crazy. (Jamie Foxx)
• They trying to change the game on them, ... A lot of people have done movies in Miami, and movies in MIA are real bright. Movies in Miami are yellow and red and green. He's shooting a lot at night, trying to make it hot. (Jamie Foxx)
• The reason you have to do this is you have to let them know that you're real, ... I had one guy say, 'It's about time we get some black celebrities down here.' I'm calling on all of them to come down here to see how it really is. (Jamie Foxx)
• They really want to say how horrible it was at the Superdome, about how horrible it was with the whole hurricane. (Jamie Foxx)
• I hit one wrong note and he stopped, ... [He said], 'Why'd you do that? Don't do that. Don't hit wrong notes.' And I was like, 'Damn ... I'm just learning.' And he said, 'No, no, no ...don't hit wrong notes. (Jamie Foxx)
• I told Tony I would look after her. (Jamie Foxx)
• I released an album then, and it didn't do anything. Everyone thought I was that funny dude. (Jamie Foxx)
• Some say that sex is overrated but they just ain't doin' it right! (Jamie Foxx)
• This is war. You've got to be ready at any point and time. (Jamie Foxx)
• We didn't know we were being unpredictable with the decision we were making. I just looked at people like Chris Rock and Will Smith, and they had their slots of how they became successful. We did things off the beaten path. (Jamie Foxx)
• It's good to be surrounded by black folks. Black folks are music. (Jamie Foxx)
• 'You've got another 50 years to go. (Jamie Foxx)
• Three 6 Mafia was in the house, baby. That was beautiful. To me, it was one of the most genuine moments of happiness. ... There's was the most felt. (Jamie Foxx)
• I think that music is two things. It's either in the club or in the bedroom. (Jamie Foxx)
• It's heavy. Heavy in a way that there's a real sense of danger, a real sense of what these guys go through as undercover cops. (Jamie Foxx)
• He's so close to his mom he is like a little boy. That's what the girls like about him. (Jamie Foxx)
• The hurricane is a heart attack. (Jamie Foxx)
• Man, we are really pulling for her. [The filmmakers] keep telling me not to say anything, but I'm pulling for it. I got my fingers crossed. (Jamie Foxx)
• You've got another 50 years to go. (Jamie Foxx)
• They were more like, 'How was it on the mountaintop?' and I'd sit down and tell 'em ... (Jamie Foxx)
• There was Clint Eastwood over there and this other person over there.' It was amazing to be able to come back and share that with cats who may be able to achieve it, too. (Jamie Foxx)
• I was disappointed by the way (court authorities) kept their distance because I don't think anybody wanted to get to know him. Once you did know him, you couldn't kill him. (Jamie Foxx)
• I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other a whole lot more. (Jamie Foxx)
• You can't be human and watch all these different things go down and not do anything, ... (Jamie Foxx)

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