William Butler Yeats Quotes
I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
Quotes to Explore
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I think all politicians lie.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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I have developed a life which seems to need a relatively high income.
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I don't pay attention to the ratings.
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If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
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When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.
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As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
