Wallace Stevens Quotes
The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
Wallace Stevens
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
Ian Goldin
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
Maggie Q
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
Hafez
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
Bam Margera
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A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
Ingrid Betancourt
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As is always the case when you are with the actual human being behind the celebrity or legend, there is something human about the man or woman that makes things less than myth.
Dan Simmons
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It is imperative that we should not pare down the meaning of a dream to fit some narrow doctrine. … No language exists that cannot be misused. It is hard to realize how badly we are fooled by the abuse of ideas, it even seems as if the unconscious had a way of strangling the physician in the coils of his own theory.
Carl Jung
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
Ben Carson
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy'Than cells and gibbets for 'the man.'
Eliza Cook
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Oh, who would have dared believe that half-crazed I, I, sick with grief for the buried past, I, smoldering on a slow fire, having lost everything and forgotten all, would be fated to commemorate a man so full of strength and will and bright inventions, who only yesterday it seems, chatted with me, hiding the tremor of his mortal pain.
Anna Akhmatova
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With a whirl of thought oppressed
I sink from reverie to rest.
An horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead.
Jonathan Swift
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For me, glamour was always an escape. When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic. When she was sick, she wouldn't do her hair or her makeup, and she just looked terrible. But when she got on medication and she was happy, she would go to the beauty parlor and wear makeup. So I really associate glamour with being happy. If you put on high heels and lipstick or get a new outfit, you feel great. It's a celebration of loving yourself, and the whole ritual of it is so great.
Amanda Lepore
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When I was five, six, I drew myself as a cat a lot, because I was obsessed with cats. And then, as soon as I took my first riding lesson, I started drawing horses.
Lisa Hanawalt
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
Nazareth
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I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.
Nikola Jean Caro
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
Wallace Stevens
