William Butler Yeats Quotes
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety.
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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It is often forgotten today that Plessy v. Ferguson was not an isolated Supreme Court decision. In case after case, the Court reaffirmed and upheld the ability of states to enforce apartheid.
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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.
