William Shakespeare Quotes

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

William Shakespeare

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• I waited for my first kiss.

  

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• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

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• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

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• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

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• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

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• In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

  

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• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

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• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

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• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

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• Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

  

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• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

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• And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.

  

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• A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

  

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• The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • Weed
  • Commonwealth