William Butler Yeats Quotes
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
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I think Trump wanted to use his 2016 campaign to basically say to a lot of folks that liberals hate you. And we have to show a bolder economic plan than we have before, one, I think, that needs to be focused on jobs, that communicates to those voters that we do care, that we care as much about their success as any other success, anyone else's success.
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The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.
