William Butler Yeats Quotes
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I was born with an evil face.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
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There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.
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The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.
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Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
