David Baker
David Baker
American poet and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient whose poetry collections include Never-Ending Birds, Changeable Thunder, and The Truth about Small Towns. He also published several works of literary criticism.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 December 1954
CityBangor, ME
CountryUnited States of America
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
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The budget was over $10 million this year. Next year it will be a little over $11 million.
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This lawlessness will cease and we will do whatever we have to do to stop this.
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I understand that the pieces of weapon were in hand luggage, but there were bullets in the (aircraft's baggage) hold,
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I will do what it takes to get through this year,
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by lifting road blocks and increasing freedom of movement, and the terrorists have exploited these humanitarian measures.
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In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.
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I can't think of anything else where somebody had a theory and a practice and an institute in their name and that there was a coup going on internally over it. This sounds nasty.
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I know sometimes Tim and I are put in an adverse position if and when I have to discipline him, but I will also say when my son (Sam, who played for Southern Cal) made the Associated Press All-American team, the first call congratulating me as a dad was from Tim Marcum. So, I respect him as a competitor. I think he has done as much as anyone to bring this league to the point it is today.
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This is a very personal interactive sport. Autographs, balls into the stands that fans can keep, the proximity of fans to the action. And we've barely begun to scratch the surface of what we can be.
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Big business should be cognizant of blending in with the community and the people who are buying the product,
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I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.
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It's great to support us and all that, but $1-million a year is a heck of a support. Children's Hospital has been very supportive and it's not on the board radar to close us down right now. But if we lose a couple hundred thousand dollars more in funding, I don't know if they can support us any more. It's getting to the straw that breaks the camel's back.
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What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.