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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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 love tap!
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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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To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.
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Whenever Granny walks into a room, everyone stands up, stops, and just kind of watches her because, obviously, it's huge when she walks into a room. And I find that incredible. I kind of go, 'Ah.'
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One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
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Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
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The first idea is an imagined thing.
