William Shakespeare Quotes

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

William Shakespeare

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

  

  Marat Safin
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• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
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• Im not your biggest girly girl.

  

  Maggie Siff
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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
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• It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.

  

  Laura Marano
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• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

  Larry King
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• Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
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• Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Life
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• People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • People
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• I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular: In proportion as the manners, customs, and amusements of a nation are cruel and barbarous, the regulations of its penal code will be severe. In proportion as men delight in battles, bullfights, and combats of gladiators, will they punish by hanging, burning, and the rack.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Men
  • Giving
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• It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes

  

  Christina Stead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mess

• Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

  

  William Shakespeare
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