Wallace Stevens Quotes
First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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I'm quite good on the harmonica and can get a tune out of most musical instruments, so long as the tune is 'Oh Susannah.'
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Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.
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When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts.
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I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.
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First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
