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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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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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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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse than others and that's not fair. How can you tell what's best and what's worst from these awards? We're talking about art.
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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
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The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
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You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.
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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?
