William Butler Yeats Quotes

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

William Butler Yeats

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• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

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• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

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• As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

  

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• One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

  

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• When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.

  

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• My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

  

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• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

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• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

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• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

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• I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

  

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• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

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• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

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• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  

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• BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.

  

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• Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.

  

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• If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

  

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• The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

  

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• When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  

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• I'm surrounded by women whose style I admire. It's natural to be inspired. I'm not a horrible copycat, or if I am, then I admit it and make a joke about it.

  

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• My first love of jazz came from joining the Chilliwack Middle School band - it was like an 18-piece jazz band, and I wanted to join just because the older kids looked like they were having so much fun.

  

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• The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Labor