William Butler Yeats Quotes
A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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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.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
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Something like Deckard Cain is great; it doesn't ruin your voice. But games that involve violence or battle or mutating and stuff like that really does take a toll on your voice. And I've even had to start to go to a voice guru kind of guy to do exercises to try to save and get back some of what I lost.
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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
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I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.
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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.
