William Shakespeare Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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The efficiency, credibility, and liquidity of the financial markets have been foundational to the largest economy in the world.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.
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The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
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My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare:At whatever time the deed took place-Macavity wasn't there.
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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When I was younger, I used to love Tim Burton's 'Batman.' I was, like, 15, and even then, I was aware, 'This is really the Joker's film.' It's like, the Joker just takes over, and Batman, you really don't learn too much about him.
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We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.
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A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
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A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.
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I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women's work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It's like there's no way to make myself not male.
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The prince of darkness is a gentleman!
