William Butler Yeats Quotes
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’
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Working 16-hour days to ensure that I can pay my bills has been a bulk of my entrepreneurship life. And on days when I don't, odds are I'm running to the airport.
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The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.
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Each year we look for a big name that is attractive to the public and pleasant for the girls.
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Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.
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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
