Wallace Stevens Quotes
Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.
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Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.
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'I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.'
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p. 96
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Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.
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It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812 section - American theater and plays. This is where I first read Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and was transfixed. I remember staring into space for what seemed an eternity after reading Linda Loman's final speech.
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I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first couple of years, and then the inevitable decline begins.
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If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.
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Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.
