William Butler Yeats Quotes
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
Larry Ellison
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
Katee Sackhoff
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Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty
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Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they're not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.
Edmund Hillary
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
Ian MacKaye
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
J. C. Watts
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
Walter Dean Myers
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I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.
Rainn Wilson
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
Harold Simmons
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I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
Jack Prelutsky
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We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto
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I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.
Waite Hoyt
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But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.
Aaron Sorkin
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But there are other issues that we have to think about is that the best way to be using our tax revenues? Is it the most efficient way to allocate our resources? And so there are a number of issues that are under study on that.
Edward Lazear
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When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Bela Fleck
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
A. C. Benson
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What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!
Ardyth Kennelly
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
