William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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Men tend to be selfish.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.
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The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is the most characteristic mental trait of mankind. It issues in an unconscious, spontaneous process of abstraction, which goes on all the time in the human mind: a process of recognizing the concept in any configuration given to experience, and forming a conception accordingly. That is the real sense of Aristotle's definition of Man as "the rational animal".
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Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
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Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well.
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We are ready to try our fortunes to the last man.
