Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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And who (in time) knows whither we may ventThe treasure of our tongue? To what strange shoresThis gain of our best glory shall be sentT' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?What worlds in the yet unformed OccidentMay come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
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There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.
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I don't make records so I can sit down afterward and listen to them. I make them so other people can sit down and listen to them.
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My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact, if my boyfriend and I are in a fight, my dad will choose his side. Always! He loves me, but it is tough love with me.
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Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.
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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
