William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
L'Wren Scott -
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.
D. H. Lawrence -
Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Ram Dass -
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.
Val Kilmer -
The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
Katee Sackhoff -
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.
Salman Rushdie
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
Felicia Day -
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?'
M. H. Abrams -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
Ferran Adria -
The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
M. Night Shyamalan -
With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith -
He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
Macaulay Culkin -
When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
Dan Gilbert
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I represent the interests of almost 90,000 human beings in our system. That's by far my first and foremost commitment.
Oscar Munoz -
It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
Carl Reiner -
I think twerking is overrated.
Kate Upton -
I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.
Danzy Senna -
O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?
Erica Jong -
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.
William Butler Yeats