Wallace Stevens Quotes
What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.
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I love being at home, being with friends and family. I'm of European stock, brought up in Australia. I'm a passionate guy. I just love life.
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What is there in life except one's ideas. Good air, good friend, what is there in life? Is it ideas that I believe?
