William Butler Yeats Quotes
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Quotes to Explore
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me.
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I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
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Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
