Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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In our quest for peace, we should constantly ask ourselves what we should do to create conditions in which peace can prosper.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'
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You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.
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Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
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From an early age, I learned to invest myself emotionally in what unfolded before me on screen.
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It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
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You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.
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As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
