William Butler Yeats Quotes
Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I still love my little home on YouTube, really.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
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Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.
