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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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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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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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.
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They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.
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A light heart lives long.
