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 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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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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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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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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I never thought I was going to be a comedian.
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The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion.
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I was an accomplished computer trespasser. I don't consider myself a thief.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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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.
