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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I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
Dash Mihok
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I signed on as the clown, and, by golly, I'll keep up my end of the bargain.
Chris Farley
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The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.
Frans de Waal
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I can remember my sister and me volunteering for Nixon. My parents liked him. I liked my parents. So I figured he was good.
Douglas McGrath
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I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.
Tommy Chong
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He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general
Wallace Stevens
