William Shakespeare Quotes
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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Beyonce is cool, and she can really sing.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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As soon as it sounds fine, I'm on to the next thing, man.
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
