William Shakespeare Quotes

The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

William Shakespeare

• Desire
• Slave
• Limits
• Infinite
• Execution

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• I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

  

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• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

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• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

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• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

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• I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

  

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• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

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• I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.

  

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• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

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• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

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• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  

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• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

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• The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

  

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• I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.

  

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• David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

  

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• I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

  

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• It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.

  

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• Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

  

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• Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience, I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York.

  

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• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  

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• Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.

  

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• That was a huge shot with the clock running down. He really brought us together, and we settled down late in the game.

  

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• The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Desire
  • Slave
  • Limits