Seamus Heaney Quotes
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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I need instant gratification.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.
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New Year's resolutions often fail because toxic emotions and experiences from our past can sabotage us or keep us stuck with the same old thoughts, patterns and regrets.
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
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Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.
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I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
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God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
