Seamus Heaney Quotes
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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My daughter's met Hillary Clinton, so she's got a strong bias. But she, of course, parrots me and goes, 'Oh, Donald Trump, I don't like him!' I'm like, 'That's good!'
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservative is destructive. So I declare that I am a radical conservative liberal. Beware of men who use words to mean their opposites.
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We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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Looks aren't a big thing to me. I keep reading these articles in fan magazines about me, and I don't even know who they're talking about. It's boring.
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I never know what's going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I've found with the opportunities that I've been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories.
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
