"Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous"
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"Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success."
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"William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell."
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"This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve."
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"Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer."
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"To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality."
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"What was happening with me, with the album [A Period of Transition], with the people who took the pictures, the record company, everything, getting a new manager [Harvey Goldsmith]-it was all saying a period of transition to me so that was the title choice. It says what it is and obviously nobody is going to analyze that. It's exactly what it is."
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"I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless"."
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"Well, there’s 10 - there’s 10 different - there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out of 10 deal with public institutions. And I’m absolutely in favor of one deals with private institutions, and had I been around, I would have tried to modify that."
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"I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980."
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"The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer."
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"I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A.""
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"You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F."
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"I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet."
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"Focus on the impact you make versus the title you have."
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"You can really Lead Without a Title."
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"Leadership is not a title. It's a behavior. LIVE it"
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"What's not fair is having the responsibility of a supervisor but not the title or the pay."
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"Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury."
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"If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity."
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