William Butler Yeats Quotes
And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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Profit per se is not my motive.
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
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If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.
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I don't really sit there and think, 'What would I like my life to be?'
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There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.
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And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.
