William Shakespeare Quotes

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

William Shakespeare

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• I was a tomboy.

  

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• Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

  

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• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

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• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

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• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

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• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

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• It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

  

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• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

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• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

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  • Live
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• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

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• Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!

  

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  • Experience
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• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

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  • Mind
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• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

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• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

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• You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

  

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• Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

  

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• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

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• The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

  

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• The American people should be very proud of the job that is being done in Atlanta by Dr. Frieden and the team at CDC.

  

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• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  

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• I'm playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she's also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she's in competition mode. I love the show, so I'm very excited to be a part of it. I'm going to kill it on 'Glee!'

  

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• One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Women
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• When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Past
  • Sweet
  • Silent