Wallace Stevens Quotes
To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
