Wallace Stevens Quotes
That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad..
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I'm easily entertained.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I have a great office.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I find the business world hard.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.
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I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
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No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
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Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of thy being, and of that which is incident to it.
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Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
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That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad..
