William Shakespeare Quotes

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

William Shakespeare

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• We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.

  

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• The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
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• I'm genuinely peaceful and positive. I feel more grounded and connected with everything - friends, family. And I think I've changed the way I deal with stuff recently; I'm trying to think of everything in a more positive way because if something gets me down, it'll really gets me down. The thing I wish I could do more of is train. It's the one thing I do that doesn't require any emotion.

  

  Ellie Goulding
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• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Trying
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• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Style
  • Animal
  • Ego

• One does not simply tell an archangel they have devoted their life to a folly.

  

  C. J. Anderson
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  • Doe
  • Folly

• The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Ideas
  • Process
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• To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

  

  Confucius
  • Confidence
  • Pride
  • Discover

• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wounds
  • Modesty
  • Publish