Seamus Heaney Quotes
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
Wayne Rooney
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A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'
Zachary Levi
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
Natan Sharansky
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber
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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
Pat Gillick
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
H. Robert Horvitz
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I think that as a poet, I am always concerned about history and baring witness to history. But so often, it's through the research that I do, the reading.
Natasha Trethewey
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Your anger is a gift.
Zack de la Rocha
Rage Against the Machine
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Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.
Don Meredith
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It is worth noting that 'too big to fail' is not simply about size. A big institution is 'too big' when there is an expectation that government will do whatever it takes to rescue that institution from failure, thus bestowing an effective risk premium subsidy. Reforms to end 'too big to fail' must address the causes of this expectation.
Jerome Powell
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In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.
Clive Granger
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I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.
Doc Watson
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Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.
Paul Krugman
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A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.
Laura Vandervoort
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I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.
Lauren Ambrose
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We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.
John Mackey
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney
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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
