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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I came out to my family when I was 13. I was a very young kid, a vulnerable kid.
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You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.
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If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
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Let your Neshuma (soul) be the real inspiration. You have a soul, you have a spirit, don't lock it in a box and forget it... Let's make this a better world... We dare not assume that the next century will have less hatred or murders than the past centuries. How can we? Are the weapons of tomorrow less harmful? Are the leaders more dependable? Are our peace treaties more durable? Are our ethics more honorable? Time is running out... We must hurry.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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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
