William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.
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Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar said to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'
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I've been on the phone, I think, 20 out of 24 hours the last three days.
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Dreams come true when desire transforms into concrete actions.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.
