William Shakespeare Quotes
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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I'm very open-minded.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !
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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
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[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
