"I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?"

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Source : David Budbill (2012). “Moment to Moment: Poems of a Mountain Recluse”, p.56, Copper Canyon Press

David Budbill

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“I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.”
“Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.”
“At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.”
“I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.”
“The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.”
“You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.”
“The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.”
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.”

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