William Shakespeare Quotes
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.
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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.
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If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.
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Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind.
