William Shakespeare Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.
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The whole Obama phenomenon brings up memories from my distant past: the good-looking guy who talks real good, whose line you don't buy immediately but whose charm is so dazzling that he gradually convinces you that this time it will be different.
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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
