Seamus Heaney Quotes
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.
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Kochi, formerly called Cochin, is a former European settlement with a large Christian population and a seafaring heritage. It is a town of enormous charm that reminds some visitors of the Caribbean more than India.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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I think there are a lot of great ideas out in America, and I want you to have a say in your government. And that means we have to get unaccountable money out of our politics, overturn Citizens United, and expand voting rights, not restrict them.
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If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.
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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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It's wonderful when you can play a character that pulls all sorts of strings inside of you and fills you emotionally.
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Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.
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I try to stay in shape a little bit, but I don't obsess about it.
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
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By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.
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But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
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I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.
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Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
