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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I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.
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I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.
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An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
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No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
