William Shakespeare Quotes

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

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I believed I was invincible.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I was out on the golf course, a guy came riding out in a golf cart and said, Did you know that Elvis died? And I just said, Well, there you go. It was like I had kinda been expecting it.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
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I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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No hallé como quien ser, en ninguno. Y me quedé, así: como ninguno.
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We the U.S. think nothing…of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
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I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.
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Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.