Wallace Stevens Quotes
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say.That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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In a world where like everyone's so accessible now, to say something new in an article that you can't find out about a n--- through his Twitter or like Googling him or some s--- is rare. Just like how a good song is rare.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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Don't fight the problem, decide it.
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I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.
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That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say.That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad.
