William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016
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I will never let down the faith you have shown in the BJP, the words of our workers and me. The rivals were busy mudslinging but the people of India have said that the answer to their problems is vaikaas development.
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I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.
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I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.
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There are times in show business when you work so much you think you will pop your cork, and then suddenly you can't find any work.
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Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.
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People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.
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I thought the first part of the year, when he was healthy, I think that is about as good as I've seen anybody run.
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Every soldier is an enemy.
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Education is not filling
