William Butler Yeats Quotes
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.
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We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
