"I think to be - for me to be an American is - you know, it's one of the greatest things in the world for - you know, for me just because I've been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world."

-- Michael Phelps

#Country Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media
“This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.”
“So to watch that production was just the most insane vision of a filmmaker being unrelenting in his will to create. Learning more about that was what we wanted to do. To find out how in God's name anyone could do that.”
“The point is, it didnâ€™t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.”
“Americans feel as though the only position they can possibly occupy is number one and if they're not number one, well, the end of the world has come.”
“A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”
“I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.”

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