William Shakespeare Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.
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The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.
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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
