Seamus Heaney Quotes
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. The U.S. should also support other countries, including Ghana, in ECOMOG until stability is established.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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I am the odd man out in the family.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.
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If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
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We are self-uncertain creatures, and we may Yea, even when we know not, mix our spites And private hates with our defence of Heaven.
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When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.
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The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
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You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.
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The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
