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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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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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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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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I don't intend to die.
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I'm such a fan of Daniel Waters, who wrote the script, and also Mark Waters, his brother, who directed. 'Vampire Academy' has, I think, an iconic director.
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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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Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
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Discontent is the seed of ethics.
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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.
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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.
