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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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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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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There are moments when her voice is all he needs.
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What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
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It's always hard as an actor I think to be just on the set and have the kind of confidence to be like, 'Yeah, I did that. That went perfectly. That's great.' That's more confidence than I have.
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Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
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When you fell in the sea, you should have heard them cheer. I made them rope the yard and fish you up. I said a ducking in water washes the witch-skill out of a woman until next full moon, and it would be bad luck to let you drown. How about that for a clever story? They’d believe anything if you make it sound silly enough.
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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.
