Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.
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When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.
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I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
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A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
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I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.
