William Shakespeare Quotes

Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

William Shakespeare

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• Charity
• Blessing
• Curse

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• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

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• Dance should mean something to you.

  

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• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

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• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

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• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

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• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

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• Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.

  

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• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

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• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

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• If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

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• There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.

  

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• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

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• I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

  

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• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  

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• Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

  

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• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

  

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• 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.

  

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• God reveals to His prophets that there are moral absolutes. Sin will always be sin. Disobedience to the Lord’s commandments will always deprive us of His blessings. The world changes constantly and dramatically, but God, His commandments, and promised blessings do not change. They are immutable and unchanging.

  

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• He had a face like a blessing.

  

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• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Charity
  • Blessing