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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Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
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Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
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It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
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In 'Deadliest Catch,' we have men in ships in rough seas catching crabs. With 'Whale Wars,' we have men and women from a dozen different nations going out to sea in rough weather to help save the whales. We also have icebergs, whales, penguins, and dramatic ship-to-ship confrontations.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
