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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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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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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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.
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I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.
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I drink to keep body and soul apart.
