William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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I like to improvise.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
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With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.
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Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?
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Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.
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By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.
