William Butler Yeats Quotes
Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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My dad was a congressman, and he taught me at a very early age, 'They voted for me, they view me as theirs, and I am.' Our family's phone in Memphis was always listed. It rang all day and all night.
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I feel like with anything you choose to do in this world, there are always gonna be people who disagree. But I've had a lot more supporters than critics.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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I approached the problem of utility measurement in 1923 during a stay in Paris. There were three objects I had in view :
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Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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To live is to feel oneself lost.
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You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.
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The path that I chose was simple - it was the exact path I should've taken, and I have no regrets at all.
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I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces.
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Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.
