William Butler Yeats Quotes
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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I have some sarcastic sides of me.
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
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It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
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Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
