Wallace Stegner Quotes
A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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I'm not a fan of action movies.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
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So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
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When bitter enemies make peace, surely some bitterness remains.
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In Stalin each Soviet bureaucrat easily finds himself. But Stalin also finds in each one a small part of his own spirit. Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.
