William Butler Yeats Quotes
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
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The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I'm older and wiser, but I still dream of doing new things and creating new things.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well.
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A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
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Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.
