William Shakespeare Quotes
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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I am at the table. I am first generation. I am Irish-Puerto Rican. I am a single mom.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.
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You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.
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They say miracles are past.
