Wallace Stevens Quotes
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
Iris Apfel -
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin -
Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
Rachel Kushner -
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull -
Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
Callie Hernandez
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
Jack Dorsey -
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
Orhan Pamuk -
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
Tabatha Coffey -
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
Carl Paladino -
If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
Adam Grant
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Acting was something I had to do.
Nancy Marchand -
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maimonides -
People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater -
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union -
It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
Cameron Dallas
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
Naveen Jain -
And some days I wonder why I insist on keeping myself alive.
Tahereh Mafi -
It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.
Thomas Hobbes -
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
Mahmoud Abbas -
The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
Maelle Gavet -
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens