Stevie Smith Quotes
See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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You have to learn how to act a pop song. You have to find the balance of the pop from the pop song and the lyrical significance of the scene you are in.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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I love pain. Love pain.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
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Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.
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Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.
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It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
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My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.
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Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
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The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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A lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.
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I have always lived the way I wanted regardless of whether or not it was popular.
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I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital.
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In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.
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See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.
