Seamus Heaney Quotes
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
Quotes to Explore
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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Talking to people from the heart matters, and it's unfortunately something brands have forgotten about. Celebrity endorsement deals try to gain recognition for brands, but at their core, what matters is if the celebrity truly backs the brand.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity, I leapt at the chance because I thought it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than what my friends were doing.
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I've been at the funerals of a lot of people in my neighborhood. Sometimes when I sit back and relax, I think about that and just blank out.
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I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.
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I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don't work. When you clean your house, you don't get tired; it gives you satisfaction.
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In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.
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Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.
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Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
