William Shakespeare Quotes

Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

William Shakespeare

• Enemy
• Fairness
• Smooth
• Courtesy
• Deceiving

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  • Free
  • Interesting

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

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• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

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• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
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• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

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  • World
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• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
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• I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • Way
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• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

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  • Money
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• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

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  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

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  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

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  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• I have a hyper personality.

  

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  • Personality
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• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

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• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

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  • Women
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• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

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  • Want
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• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  

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• Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

  

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• We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

  

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  • Country
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• Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Enemy
  • Fairness
  • Smooth