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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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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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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We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
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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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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.
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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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I had a lot of guilt and shame when I was running from God, but nothing like when I was running for God. I was always looking for God's approval, and that's where the guilt and shame came out in a big way.
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The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.
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I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
