Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
Kat Graham -
The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
Rafer Johnson -
They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
Idina Menzel -
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
P. T. Barnum -
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Ralph Nader
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a 'continent,' a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.
Carl Jung -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger -
Act because you love to act.
Mae Whitman -
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
Tamra Davis
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
Ursula Burns -
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Jack Kerouac -
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson -
Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
Vijay Kumar -
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys
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There is no way, if I was running ABC, I would have kept me on the air.
Jimmy Kimmel -
To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.
Dorothy Dunnett -
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
Penelope Ann Miller -
There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?
Israel ben Eliezer -
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens