Seamus Heaney Quotes
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
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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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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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I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
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Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?
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With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.
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The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
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I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?
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Sometimes people say something to you and you're like, "I respect you so much, I love what you do, but I disagree. I don't think that's right for the way I see it."
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Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.
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The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
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The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
