Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
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I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.
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…satyromaniacal…
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What's your name, new best friend?
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If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.
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I don't care if my opponents are cheating or not.
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I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
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I did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.
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We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.
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I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.
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When told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: 'Naturally.' He then added: 'And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?'
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I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion - very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions.
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The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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The line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day, Where a myriad snowy quartz stones lift, And the hoof-prints vanish away. The roadside flowers, too wet for the bee, Expend their bloom in vain. Come over the hills and far with me, And be my love in the rain.
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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
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The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.
