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Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Birthday: April 4, 1928

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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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I think there are always people who, when they get the bug to play an instrument, they want to get as good as they can with it rather than just be simply adequate at it. You run into them every once in a while - some kid who wants to be the next Stevie Ray Vaughan, for whatever reason, and plays exactly like him.

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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

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I think that certainly, whenever you have a new band, the first record always has a certain energy to it before you know what you're doing. I think some of the early Sonic Youth stuff was maybe like that.

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Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

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I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

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Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

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When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

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I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?

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Who doesn't want to be, like, five inches taller whenever they can be? If boys could, they'd be wearing heels.

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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

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I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

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I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

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I think it's important for a guy to be 'protective,' shall we say, but you don't want to come off like you just rolled around in an Old Spice factory. Everyone has their own natural scent.

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I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.

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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

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I think 'Bat Out Of Hell' will probably last forever.

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Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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