William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
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A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.
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I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.
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[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
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Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.
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Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
