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 get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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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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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
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The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.
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Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.
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The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.
