William Butler Yeats Quotes
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
Quotes to Explore
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
