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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I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.
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Save the Children is often told that its aims are impossible - that there has always been child suffering and there always will be. We know. It's impossible only if we make it so. It's impossible only if we refuse to attempt it.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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What can I but enumerate old themes?
