William Butler Yeats Quotes
Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.
Quotes to Explore
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!
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My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai'i was a brilliant idea.
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
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I don't look too far ahead.
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No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.
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We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
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I'm extremely happy that I could win the gold medal. It's a special moment in my career.
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I wanted to share my doubts and my culinary, amorous, and cosmic experiences. So I wrote 'Like Water for Chocolate,' which is merely the reflection of who I am as a woman, a wife, a mother, a daughter.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
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I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.
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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.
