Seamus Heaney Quotes
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
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Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
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When I eat better, I perform better.
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I'd date a fan as long as she didn't scream in my face.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
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So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.
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This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
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The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
