William Butler Yeats Quotes
While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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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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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
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I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
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In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
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All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
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It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.
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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.
