William Butler Yeats Quotes
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
Quotes to Explore
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I really like doing puppetry; I'm not sure if it will find its way into 'Big Bang,' but it always does seem to find its way into a lot of things.
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I hope to be still acting when I'm 70 on TV, film and theatre.
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I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
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My dad helped me understand songwriting because of him playing Babyface a lot. I don't even know if my dad realized that him just being him, him just living his life, loving what he loved, poured more into me than anybody ever would know.
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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
