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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I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.
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My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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I prefer to date younger girls to be more protective.
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We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.
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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.
