William Shakespeare Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any outcome, you have zero knowledge.
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As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.
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A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
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The fun part about doing our movies is that you're creating something using the talents of people rather than finding these pathetic people who are thrust into these situations. That, to me, is completely artless.
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I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.