William Shakespeare Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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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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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
