William Shakespeare Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
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Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
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After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.
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No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
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I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.
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Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
