William Shakespeare Quotes
The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
Victoria Principal
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
Frances O'Grady
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
Barbara Kingsolver
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
Rajiv Ouseph
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
Rachel Kushner
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?
Jackie Collins
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.
Zhang Ziyi
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Ban Ki-moon
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. Howe
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Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Victor Hugo
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
Zarin Mehta
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I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
Walton Goggins
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna
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The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
P. J. Kavanagh
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The Constitution was never amended to take away rights from a group of Americans.
Evan Wolfson
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I am a trained hypnotherapist, yes, but it's more like a guided meditation. Most of the people I take under struggle with stress in their lives and have unbalanced sleeping patterns, so what I do enables my patients to regain energy and peacefulness on a subconscious level which affects their conscious mind.
Tanit Phoenix
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I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.
Liz Phair
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In fact, part of the Netflix series is drama.Beyond re-enactments. Why not invent something new?
Errol Morris
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The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.
William Shakespeare