Seamus Heaney Quotes
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
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When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.
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A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays.
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
