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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#assurance #been #exposes #himself #learned

If I do a movie where I have to have a son and it's a chubby kid, my mother is always like, 'You were never like that.' She gets so upset about it. ↗

— Kevin James

#always #chubby #gets #i #i do

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black #created #grew #myths #people

I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#african-american #bronze #complain #get #got

All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the Knicks organization, I couldn't allow myself to think that way or believe that. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#allow #been #believe #had #i

I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#afraid #away #because #been #before

We decided to either try trades or just go with older players. If you do that and let contracts expire you can be in the lottery for about four or five years and expect your fans to be patient. ↗

— Isaiah Thomas

#be patient #contracts #decided #either #expect

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#backs #incredibly #like #photographed #sand

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #amazing #anyone #anything #apart

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anyway #argue #bees #best #calculate