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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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I'm not dogmatic.
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Would the child you were yesterday admire the person you are today? If not, adjust for desired results.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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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?
