William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Everything I say is true.
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When you're the president of the United States, you have no money unless the Congress says, 'Here's what you can spend it on.'
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My workout involves cardio, jogging, and yoga as well. I am a firm believer of yoga and meditation.
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Going 3-13 is not acceptable.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.
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The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
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I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.
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Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.
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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.
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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.
