Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
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Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!
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I didn't have a record player.
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My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
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Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
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So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye.
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: 'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!'
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The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.
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Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it
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O month when they who love must love and wed.
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I drink to keep body and soul apart.
