Seamus Heaney Quotes
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
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Investment banking is not a business; it is a personal service where bankers work hand in hand with their clients. And it is a service that must not simply be about making bigger and bigger deals that reap rewards for only a small group of executives.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
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The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.
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I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!
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Our goal is to move not hundreds of miles, but tens of miles.
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Just do what you do. Sometimes you do well, and sometimes you do wrong, but you have to just be able to deal with yourself and move forward.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
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You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.
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The next move is always the test.
