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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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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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.
