Wallace Stevens Quotes
Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know... one of my favorite movies is 'The Notebook' so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
