William Butler Yeats Quotes
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.William Butler Yeats
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells -
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr. -
I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.
Tawakkol Karman -
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine -
I dig all kinds of competition.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
Paris Hilton -
I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
Barbara Fialho -
On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
Rachel Zoe -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
When you're rich you don't write checks.
Randy Moss -
Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
Gail Collins
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Sabine Lisicki -
I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
Maisie Williams -
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
Ira Glass -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams -
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
Nancy Gibbs
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.
Mary Karr -
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner -
To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.
T. S. Eliot -
I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.
Sean Penn -
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
William Butler Yeats