William Butler Yeats Quotes
but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.
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This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life.
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Love cannot remain by itself – it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Hubris and science are incompatible.
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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.
