William Butler Yeats Quotes
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
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I tried for a short time to be something I wasn't, and had no success with it. It's a practical solution to just be yourself.
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My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.
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I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
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I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.
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I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.
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This is a shameful thing to say, but I've never really got that 'grown-up' mind-set. I have to buy forks? Why?
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.
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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
