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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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When you gotta go through something tough, I've always been a guy that just wants to get it out of the way.
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?
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Self-knowledge - the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?
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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.
