Seamus Heaney Quotes
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.
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The world itself has become a smaller place. If you want to be remembered and create a legacy, you have to reach out to people. They want to know you. I can just say where I'm going, and Twitter will get it, and if there's a controversy, I can give my opinion. It's easier to communicate.
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I'm kind of like an open wound all the time, and that's hard. It's hard to deal with, especially in this industry. Every time I leave a movie, I feel like I'm going to die. Because you connect with these people, and then they all leave. I wish I wasn't like that, but I am.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
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From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.
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Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
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I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.
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Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very quickly I would be smoothed away.
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
