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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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
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Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.
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'Taxi Driver' was the best thing that ever happened to me, and I didn't become a weirdo and squawk like a chicken.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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A light heart lives long.
