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..
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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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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.
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Where the pools are bright and deepWhere the gray trout lies asleep,Up the river and o'er the leaThat's the way for Billy and me.
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Only ugliness is obscene.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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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..
