William Shakespeare Quotes
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
Karrie Webb
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
Ian Fleming
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Ralph Bakshi
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
Iris Apfel
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
Halle Berry
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
Nader al-Masri
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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.
J. G. Ballard
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
Patrick Marber
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I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
Eddie Campbell
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I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
Aaron Eckhart
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Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.
Neil Diamond
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I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.
Angela Davis
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
Alec Guinness
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Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.
Leon Uris
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My ideas for the future? To take over the world.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
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I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
Sappho
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
Kate Williams
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
William Shakespeare