William Butler Yeats Quotes
Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'
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Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.
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“Hope was a fragile flicker that he wanted to cup with both hands to protect against the harsh winds of reality.”
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Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.
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I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.
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Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.
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Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...
