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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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.
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There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
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I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow,Cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive,I'll never get out of this world alive.
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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.
