William Shakespeare Quotes
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
Damien Hirst
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
Imelda Marcos
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
Orison Swett Marden
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
Jack Dorsey
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland
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In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
Kapil Sibal
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
Adam Grant
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
Fiona McIntosh
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
Tea Leoni
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
Natalie Jeremijenko
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
Patrick Whitesell
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
Nandan Nilekani
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
P. G. Wodehouse
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
Gabriel Byrne
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
Patrick Wilson
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Death is the beginning of something.
Edith Piaf
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
Ian Somerhalder
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
Parker Young
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I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
Liam Neeson
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While brands slowly transform the experience of campus life for undergraduates, another kind of takeover is under way at the institutional research level. All over the world, university campuses are offering their research facilities, and priceless academic credibility, for the brands to use as they please.
Naomi Klein
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I'm not trying to be coy here; we're just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
Jim Walton
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare