William Butler Yeats Quotes
I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
Quotes to Explore
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
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I got really hooked on this riff in the middle of this song called 'Minor Miracles' by my friend Eric Johnson from Fruit Bats. I got the tracks for that from him, and that turned into 'Here in Spirit.'
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The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
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I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
