Wallace Stevens Quotes
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I've been training quite hard.
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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
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Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.
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The paths of Europe and Russia are seriously diverging and will remain so for a long time ... probably for decades to come.
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I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality.
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After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life’s redemption.
