William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner."
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Periods
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Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are."
Ovid
Poet
"What is without periods of rest will not endure."
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion Designer, Photographer
"Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all."
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"There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period."
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"Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting."
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"The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor."
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"I wouldn't take nothin' but a Ford: F-O-R-D, period. Ain't nothin' like a Ford. I wouldn't drive a Chevrolet 'cause I can't spell it."
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"There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]"
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"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."
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"Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods."
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"Nobody has the right to humiliate someone else, period."
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"The better you get at your key skills, the more you accomplish in a shorter period of time."
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"Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie."
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"There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period."
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"You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it."
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"I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure."
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"One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work."
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"I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person."
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"There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance."
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"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other."
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"My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot."
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"When you are fundamentally committed to something that is right, you just decide to go down fighting. Period."
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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
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