William Butler Yeats Quotes
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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Death always seems to be around me.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.
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If you do something that's different and quirky and original, it takes time for people to figure it out.
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She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
