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I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
Tony Scott
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.
James Fenton
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.


Bernie Taupin
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I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.


Jack Kemp
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I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.
Robert Kiyosaki
I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets.
Dylan Moran
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.


Francine Prose
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.


George Orwell
The lyrics are what I work on the hardest, but I'm not trying to make a perfectly clear message or anything like that. In fact, I'm usually trying to avoid saying something too directly, because usually that rings false anyway.
Matt Berninger
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.


Octavia E. Butler
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It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.
Tim Burton
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.


W. C. Fields
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You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.


Albert Camus
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I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
Aurora
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Barbara Kruger
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
Rand Paul
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Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.


Richard C. Armitage
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We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.
Basmah bint Saud
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.


Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.


Gregory Nunn