William Shakespeare Quotes
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I just can't read music.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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The U.N. might not be the most luxurious place to work, but it certainly is one of the most important places in the world.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
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One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.
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The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
