William Butler Yeats Quotes
It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.
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If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
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People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.
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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
