Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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Love is the greatest link that we have with those who have temporarily left us.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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Someone told me ‘Don’t look back, you’re not going that way’ and those words inspire me, as does the famous quote of Winston Churchill. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
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All history is modern history.
