William Butler Yeats Quotes
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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Everyone's right or wrong, Everyone's got an opinion, put them in a song and let me keep on living.
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I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying.
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You know that a lot of people go to emergency rooms when they don't really need to.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
