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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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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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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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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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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On both of my flights, everything went very well.
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Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.
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A lonely impulse of delight
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
