Wallace Stevens Quotes
I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
Quotes to Explore
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Quite frankly, I don't miss standing in the box or standing on the field playing.
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A classical work doesn't ever have to be understood entirely. But those who are educated and who are still educating themselves must desire to learn more and more from it.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.
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Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
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Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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That ev'n my buried Ashes such a snare Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air As not a True-believer passing by But shall be overtaken unaware.
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One of the reasons religions are widely accepted is spiritual laziness and its resulting fear.
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Internet forums are kind of fun and stuff, but what's really weird is how they fucking give such a shit about how I'm spelling. It's like, what, I worked to be a clerical worker? I didn't take typing class, assholes.
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Since the 1970s, I've been a big fan of attending conferences as a great way to learn, network, socialize and enjoy a new environment. It's always refreshing to get out and see a whole new world.
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Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.
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We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
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I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
