William Butler Yeats Quotes
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I think we should balance the federal budget tomorrow. I'm optimistic. I think Americans are optimistic. We went to the moon; we can balance the federal budget.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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The news changes every day. So it's not like being involved in any litigation that goes on for four years, and the trial lasts three months.
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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
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Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
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'Wanna Be That Song' has everything I want to say about love and about what I'm trying to be. I wanna be that part of your life, that song that means so much to you, the one that takes you back to that special place... the song that makes you laugh, the song that makes you cry when you need to cry, that makes you dance when you need to dance.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
