Wallace Stevens Quotes
The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,Beyond which fact could not progress as fact. Thereon the learning of the man conceived Once more night’s pale illuminations, goldBeneath, far underneath, the surface of His eye and audible in the mountain of His ear, the very material of his mind.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Venus favors the bold.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers … What they really hate are lousy programmers.
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I can't imagine not reporting. It's such a habit of mind for me, I do it even in my social life. If I'm nervous at a party, I just start interviewing people.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,Beyond which fact could not progress as fact. Thereon the learning of the man conceived Once more night’s pale illuminations, goldBeneath, far underneath, the surface of His eye and audible in the mountain of His ear, the very material of his mind.
