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Seamus Heaney Quotes

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

Topics

Poetry Political Said Expectation

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Robert Rauschenberg

Chance End Spirit Never Up Gone

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Hope Free Energy Feel Moments You

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

Myself Finance Engineering Wall Said

As you get older, you do just get tired.

Tired You Get Just Older

The U.S. federal government may be going broke, but it's not because of NASA.

Government NASA May Going Broke

I was ecstatic when 'The Walking Dead' came along. Merle Dixon was so perfectly adapted for me.

Me Walking Dead Along Ecstatic Came

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

I Can Why Protect More Always Ruin

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

Best Small Long Result Achieve Turn

Music is a tool that brings people together.

Music Together People Tool Brings

I'm really excited because Interscope is really focused on artists. They've been working side by side with me creatively and allowing me to make a lot of the creative decisions, which you don't always hear about. That's why I didn't want to sign originally with a major label.

Creative Me Decisions You Want Why

Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures.

Bryant H. McGill

Failure Become Sanctuary Your

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

Britt Robertson

Best Believe Advice Hype Own Your

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