Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
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I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.
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I grew up in Mumbai.
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I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
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Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?
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I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
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In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they put me on the cover. If they want to gain popular support in an election, they ask for my endorsement. Where does someone like me go when we need a safe place to be and learn? To renew, deepen the foundation of our work, and sharpen our focus? To share experiences, lessons and build relationships with others that can advance our thinking, approach and capacity? We go to the YES! Jam, which gives us all that and so much more.
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Two buckets were easier carried than one. I grew up in between.
