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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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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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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Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
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If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
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I watch television all the time, mostly PBS and old movies like 'The Quiet Man,' my favorite Wayne movie. It's marvelous. I just loved the man and still do.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
