Wallace Stevens Quotes
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
Nancy Greene -
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter Lippmann -
To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
Vanilla Ice -
I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
Becki Newton -
There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
Eberhard Weber -
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
Lance Armstrong
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
Tariq Ramadan -
I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
Tamsin Egerton -
I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
J. Philippe Rushton -
All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
Harold Pinter -
There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth -
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
Patrick Carman -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural problems in American politics and government are systemic and prevent us from solving our most intractable challenges.
Larry J. Sabato -
I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris -
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer
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Cuando no se quiere lo imposible, no se quiere.
Antonio Porchia -
No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
Paloma Faith -
When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
Patrick Duffy -
The Constitution is clear, Article I, Section 8, power vetted in Congress to declare war. If you go back to the founding documents of this nation, the decision of going to war was to be made by people closest to the ground - the elected officials - to make those decisions.
John Barrasso -
Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Wallace Stevens