William Shakespeare Quotes
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I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying.
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
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You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.
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Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
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I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
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Perfectionism and procrastination have such a fine line. You say, 'Well, I want it to be good. I want it to be perfect.' But what you're really doing is not doing your work. You're putting off showing up and being visible because then you're going to be judged, and it might suck.
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I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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Of course a picture can lie, but only if you are not honest with yourself.
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The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
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The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
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Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
