Seamus Heaney Quotes

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

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• After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Imagination
  • Forever
  • Brand

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • She
  • Wife

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fly

• I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Good
  • Think
  • Pretty

• I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Method

• My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Rest

• When men hold the greater majority of all professional positions of power, it is impossible for a woman to advance her career without the support of men.

  

  Carol Roth
  • Men
  • Power
  • Career

• I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

  

  David Carradine
  • Real

• At lunchtime, our kitchen was like a mini restaurant: my grandmother and mother had to cook for as many as 25 people - extended family plus 10 employees. We ate a lot of cabbage and a lot of potatoes.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • People
  • Family
  • Mother

• It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Better
  • Odds

• There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • Risk