William Butler Yeats Quotes
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
Quotes to Explore
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I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I've never seen the allure of being famous, because I know what that's like. It's part of work.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
