William Butler Yeats Quotes
I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.
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I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
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Age doesn't mean anything. Its all in your head. Men get sexier with age. They also get wiser and get experienced.
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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
