William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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I urge all young people to go for their dreams. If they do, many of the world’s problems will be solved.
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I love Cameron Diaz, and I love Drew Barrymore.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue
