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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We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
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Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.
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The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.
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If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.
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I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.
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The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.
