William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.
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I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.
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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
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Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.
