William Butler Yeats Quotes
Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.
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My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
