William Butler Yeats Quotes
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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I wasn't born to be champion - I fought to be champion.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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I don't intend to die.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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Holy cow!
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
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You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
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It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
