Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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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.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
