William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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To make headway, improve your head.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.
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Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
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There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous.
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She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?
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Some scholars have argued that ancient religion was principally concerned with averting the gods’ anger. But this divine anger was aroused almost always because of neglect. he gods—or at least one ofthem—had not been respected and worshiped properly or sufficiently. That was the main logic behind Roman persecution of the Christians. Because this group of miscreants refused to worship the gods, there was hell to pay.
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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
