William Butler Yeats Quotes
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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We care about margins.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.
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Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.
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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
