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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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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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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If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.
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It's a new skill to have two children that want you at the same time.
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What you are doesn't matter. Because what you are isn't going to change who you are.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
