William Butler Yeats Quotes
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
Quotes to Explore
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Those who go along get along.
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A nonfiction author has to bring a platform with him - radio, a TV show or some kind of recognizable vehicle to help launch them. And the agent is really necessary to represent all of the business interests of the author.
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I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.
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There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
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I have to say that today many women celebrate this event and welcome you as a sister, a sister of commitment. I've been receiving messages from all parts of the world to say that this is a special day to them as well.
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More often writing soliloquies of suffering and consolation than collective songs like the dirge, elegists have discovered that lyric sequences can provide a powerful means of addressing the tensions between grief's inchoate emotion and social rituals of mourning.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
