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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  • Life
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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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• Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - 'Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!'

  

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• Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free.

  

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• It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.

  

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• How can we affect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?

  

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• You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.

  

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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