William Shakespeare Quotes
A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.
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I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
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I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
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A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
