Wallace Stevens Quotes
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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Marriage has made me safer.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen.
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If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.
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She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
