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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The Republicans are coming - make nice.
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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 have reached a limit in my work.
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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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We don't move on in the stunt unless it looks like a hit. So when I see it on TV, I'm generally satisfied that people are going to buy it.
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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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Writing is a funny thing. It's not like you're working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.
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Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
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But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.
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When I close my eyes, I see champions on a podium.
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
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The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.
