William Shakespeare Quotes
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray
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I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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You see all the young girls, and they're so skinny. I actually don't even twirl anymore. They say, "Twirl, let us see your back." I just tell 'em, "I do not twirl. If you want to see my back, when I walk away, you can take a picture of it. I'm not twirling." You know, I twirled once, and I almost fell. It looks ridiculous. So I said I'm not twirling anymore.
Viola Davis
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson,
Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.
Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing
With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.
William Cullen Bryant
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
Lois McMaster
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Barbara Tuchman
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Businesses have moved from doing business to doing lobbying, and I think that's a very bad thing.
Angus Deaton
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
