William Butler Yeats Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I won't join another band again.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
