William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Great men marry great women.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.
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Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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I would love to be a sleeper, but I'm not. I'm usually up pretty early, even if I've been out the night before.
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There are two kinds of climbers: those who climb because their heart sings when they're in the mountains, and all the rest.
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In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
