Seamus Heaney Quotes
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day.
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I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.... Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today.... As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
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The greatest saving one can make in the order of thought is to accept the unintelligibility of the world - and to pay attention to man.
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We are not occupying Afghanistan, we are there as guests of a government, at their request.
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I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.
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A lot of people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are actually sticking up for those other lives. They are turning out for their Muslim brothers and sisters who are now being targeted.
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I'm a person who likes habit and knowing what my job is.
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I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.
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Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.
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I ain't learn everything yet at 95. But I got good fingers, that's one thing, I got good fingers. If it weren't for them fingers I wouldn't be going now.
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If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.
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If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing.
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I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
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Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
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They almost made me get up and walk out of the building in the third quarter. I almost left them alone on a sinking ship. But they got it right in time and it took another 10 minutes but they finally got it right and got going. That's what a layoff will do sometimes.
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Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt?
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I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.
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Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.
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You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
