Wallace Stevens Quotes
He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general
Wallace Stevens
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Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
Natalia Makarova
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Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
Karen Salmansohn
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Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.
Idina Menzel
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Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
Nalo Hopkinson
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
Colin Wilson
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My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.
Shania Twain
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I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
Lynn Swann
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A modern arboretum brings us that ancient forest and, with it, a changed apprehension of time, a renewed appreciation of the elegance of natural form and a renewed sense of wonder at the variety of the world we inhabit.
John Burnside
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.
AJ Lee
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He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general
Wallace Stevens
