William Butler Yeats Quotes
He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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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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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough to marry someone, although people have gotten married for less.
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(On his proposal to overcome the ethnically polarized election results with a National Unity government in 1982, which the Opposition declined): 'Fiji was too small to squander its limited pool of talent. Worse still, this division created an atmosphere of frustration that could fester and poison relations.'
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I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
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Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.
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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
