William Butler Yeats Quotes
The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I lost the ball in the moon.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'
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I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.
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Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome.
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After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.
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You need your family in this business. It's one of the most important things to keep you grounded. You come home and your mom's like, 'Clean the kitty's litter box.' It's not like it's all about me.
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I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.
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The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
