William Butler Yeats Quotes
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.
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My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.
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A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
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Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
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I was 35 years old and in a position to take a shot at whatever I wanted to try. The Air Force said I was too old to fly fighter jets. I thought about becoming a fishing boat captain, before deciding that acting seemed pretty cool.
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
