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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My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.
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The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
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The American people can always be trusted with the information.
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On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.
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But his life consisted, for the most part, of writing and reading. He wrote during the day, read at night, went to bed early, and did the same thing the next day.
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The next move is always the test.
