William Butler Yeats Quotes
How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.
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I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
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There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.
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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
