William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
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Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.
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The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
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Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.
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Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
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I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats.
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I think art doesn't have to be created in a period of misery, but it certainly helps.
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I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.
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I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet.
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The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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I like wearing oils. Perfume makes me nauseous sometimes. It's too strong.
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We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.
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I'm always being introduced as 'Tony Award-winning Douglas Hodge.' It's extraordinary.
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Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.
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I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.
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It would be a great abuse of my position to write that it was Northwest Airlines that treated us in this shoddy and inexcusable way, so I won't.
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I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe.