Anne Stevenson Quotes

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

Anne Stevenson

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I get butterflies before I go out to say hello at a party.

Joan Rivers

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Obviously, stats are important tools, but I think there's something behind those things; somewhere along the way, you've got to try to look inside someone.

Jerry West

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I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.

Jenny Lewis

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I definitely believe in ghosts.

Jenna Dewan

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Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Stephen Gardiner

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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Sun Myung Moon

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The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

Smedley Butler

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It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

Shirley Manson

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Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

Michio Kaku

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'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Mitch Kapor

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I found New York too... 'vertical,' closed off, I didn't feel the muse like I did in L.A. Maybe it's the weather?

LP

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