William Butler Yeats Quotes
A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.
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People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I'm gay, and I say, 'So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I'm straight.'
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I like staying here very much, as I feel at home in Dortmund.
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I'm not trying to dog any artist or genre, but to me, there is a lot of diversity missing from the radio. I miss turning the radio on and getting punched in the soul with a great lyric.
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Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,And Greta woods are green,And you may gather garlands thereWould grace a summer's queen.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
