William Butler Yeats Quotes
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.William Butler Yeats
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
Viktor Orban -
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole -
A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
Jack Nicklaus -
We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
Wayne Newton -
The market for local advertising is in the billions.
Sam Altman
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
Tatyana Ali -
It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow -
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga -
I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
Karen Duffy -
Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
Brown Campbell -
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
L. Neil Smith
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks -
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
Dana Perino -
Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
Karl Pilkington -
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
Young Buck -
So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
Jack Markell -
I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
Frances McDormand
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This stuff marijuana keeps me sane and happy. I'd say it's a great drug - but obviously it's not very healthy.
George Michael -
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
Elia Kazan -
Everyday we are going to fight lazy and soft. It's completely unacceptable. You have to be demanding
George Karl -
Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
Monica Crowley -
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor -
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
William Butler Yeats