Wallace Stevens Quotes
The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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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?'
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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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.
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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.
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Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.
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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.
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Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy'Than cells and gibbets for 'the man.'
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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.
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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
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Life is movement. Once you stop moving, you're dead. Choose life.
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
