William Butler Yeats Quotes
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I get homesick.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."
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If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.
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Sow the seeds of life - humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.
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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
