Wallace Stevens Quotes
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
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The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly reduced in severity, or perhaps not even fought at all, without fiat money.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4
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She took a deep breath. Suddenly, she felt quite entirely sober. 'Is this as important as I think it is?''Almost certainly much more so.''Oh,' she said, 'fuck.'
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Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for
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Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
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...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit...
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God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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Now an' then an innocent man is sent t' th' legislature.
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She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes:Thus mellow'd to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies.
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Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.
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What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell - I'll never know why!
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Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
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I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.
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Man is an eternal sophomore.
