Wallace Stevens Quotes

Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

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• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Live
  • You
  • Treat

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

  

  Barry Took
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Sympathy

• Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Head
  • Pocket
  • Favorable

• So the search for a father in Central Station is also a search for a country.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Country
  • Father
  • Search

• We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • Goals
  • Cooperation

• I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Feeling
  • You

• I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Different
  • Women
  • Family

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• Jack: Hey, wait a minute. What kind of make up is this?

  

  Jack Benny
  • Up

• In 1972, Idi Amin expelled 80,000 Ugandan Indians and confiscated their 4,000 properties. Now, after returning those properties to their rightful owners, we have ensured that security of persons and property are guaranteed under the constitution.

  

  Yoweri Museveni

• Asimov: I don't know of any science fiction writer who really attempts to be a prophet. Such authors accomplish their tasks not by being correct in their predictions, necessarily, but merely by hammering home-in story after story-the notion that life is going to be different.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Different
  • Home

• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Life
  • Learning

• All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Life
  • Shadow
  • Boxing

• When I first walked in to London, I was so overwhelmed by the village, the sheer volume of people. I was just so excited. You don't know what to expect. So the level of excitement was almost draining, just taking everything in. I was so exhausted after I swam because of all the excitement in the build-up.

  

  Aimee Willmott
  • People
  • Up

• My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.

  

  Eminem
  • Brain

• We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve. And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22 percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.

  

  Alberto Fujimori
  • Poverty

• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens