Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
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Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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By legitimizing Iran's nuclear program, removing the pressure of economic sanctions, and allowing it to obtain conventional weapons and ballistic missiles, this agreement makes the prospect for war more likely, not less.
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The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far faster rate than the Bureau of Prisons could accommodate in their own facilities.
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After all these years of cooking and writing recipes, I am still amazed every time I notice how even the minutest of variation in technique can make a spectacular difference.
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Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
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People complain that cities don't have fresh, sustainable food, but it's just not true.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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I love 'Fishing With John' so much.
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I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
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We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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It was from the Chicago stockyards that the Nazis learned how to process bodies.
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One demonstrable effect this type of work can have is in its viral promulgation. Take Kathy Acker for example: her work exists mainly through academic channels. Students are exposed to her novels, and some read her, then, on their own, but some also go to grad school: teach her, write about her, keep her going.
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I'm still Sean that me mates went to school with, not Sean the film star. And that's the way I prefer to be.
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I'm a lawyer by training, of course.
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I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized only after a failure of communication, and our first movement is to believe in an undivided being between us.
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My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.
