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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• Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

  

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• I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

  

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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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• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

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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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• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

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• When I left school, I had a list of priorities headed by 'marriage' and 'children'. That is how, I suppose, as a woman, you are brought up to think. At the same time, as I grew older, I told myself that if it happens, it happens, and that will be fine, but if it doesn't, that will be fine, too.

  

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• Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!

  

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• I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

  

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• Don't imagine that you'll discover {the truth} by accumulating more knowledge. Knowledge creates doubt, and doubt makes you ravenous for more knowledge. You can't get full eating this way.

  

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

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Charity
  • Blessing