William Butler Yeats Quotes
What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.
Quotes to Explore
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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We anticipate countries increasing their spending on infrastructure like railways, airports, power plants and ports. Our heavy forging plant has the capacity to cater to each of these segments.
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A house is kind of scary.
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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement - and my ability to go from one genre to another - comes from my experience in New Orleans.
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One man gathers what another man spills
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I was a virgin. People find that hard to believe, but when you're raised in a church, that was just the way it is.
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Admittedly, we must move ahead with the development of our land resources. Likewise, our technology must be refined. But in the long run life will succeed only in a life-giving environment, and we can no longer afford unnecessary sacrifices of living space and natural landscape to 'progress.'
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What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.
