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.
William Butler Yeats
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Sally Mann
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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.
Karin Slaughter
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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.
Dana Brunetti
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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.
Youssou N'Dour
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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.
Dan Quinn
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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.
Larry Page
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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.
Barry Jenkins
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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.
Zac Brown Band
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
Malcolm Boyd
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
Irving Ravetch
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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.
Barton Gellman
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How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
Mahalia Jackson
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
Gale Harold
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In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.
Conan O'Brien
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It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
William Butler Yeats
