Wallace Stevens Quotes
You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear. That’s it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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We need a reasonable price where producers will not start nagging. At a reasonable price, we can invest to produce more oil.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.
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Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.
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You remain the more than natural figure. You Become the soft-footed phantom, the irrationalDistortion, however fragrant, however dear. That’s it: the more than rational distortion, The fiction that results from feeling. Yes, that.
