William Shakespeare Quotes
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a lot of it just clings.
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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'
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In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
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Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
