William Shakespeare Quotes
The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Europe can be saved.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I'm just interested in having a handle on my environment.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.
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We're being shelled and bombed and assassinated and killed. Our homes are being destroyed, our children traumatized. Our livelihoods, our institutions, our infrastructure totally demolished.
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I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level.
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I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.
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The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
