William Shakespeare Quotes
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.
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As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.
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My mother was one of the most dynamic and brilliant women I have ever known. She was also mercurial and unfocused.
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Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.
