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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'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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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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I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
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When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock it down to one place because it's all part of our imagination. They are legends for a reason. Their stories have endured for hundreds of years and, hopefully, they will for hundreds of years to come.
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If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel.
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I really, really, loved being an elected official. But I also love what I'm doing now. I thrive when I can fight for people and I'm doing it now as a lawyer.
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They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.
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The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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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.
