William Butler Yeats Quotes
What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.
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I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
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One of my biggest influences growing up was Jamie O'Brien. He was like an older brother to me.
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Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science. . . . Historians of science will have cause to heap praise on this book, but so too will the non-specialists. The author's splendid writing style, at times appropriately Puckish, makes this work an accessible and enjoyable read.
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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
