William Shakespeare Quotes
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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206. If someone asked us 'but is that true?' we might say 'yes' to him; and if he demanded grounds we might say 'I can't give you any grounds, but if you learn more you too will think the same.'
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No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press).
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In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.
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A light heart lives long.
