William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'
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Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity.
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It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.
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As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
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I think working hard at anything when you're young and getting positive results, it's always an incredible feeling to see that.
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I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
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Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
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The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.
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I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.
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Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.
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The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.
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But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.
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What can I but enumerate old themes?
