William Shakespeare Quotes

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

William Shakespeare

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• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
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• I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Know
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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
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• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dreams
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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
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  • Care
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• You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • World
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• I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

  

  Samira Wiley
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• In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Faith
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• The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Family
  • Happiness

• Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Good
  • Important
  • Happiness

• As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these points.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Money
  • Getting
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• Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

  

  Halston
  • Important
  • Business
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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
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  • Faces

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
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• I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Action
  • Like

• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • Director
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• Scientology … is not a religion.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Book
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• The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

  

  James Larkin
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• 'What do you think?' 'Sir?' 'Frightening? Did you ever learn mathematics?' 'Yes, sir.' 'So add up how many Frenchmen can actually use their muskets.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Up

• It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Piano

• Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Earth
  • Dies
  • Dust