William Shakespeare Quotes

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

William Shakespeare

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• A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

  

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• Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

  

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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

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• In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.

  

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• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

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• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

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• Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

  

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• After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

  

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• I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.

  

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• I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

  

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• The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

  

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• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

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• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  

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• It's so exciting to be able to talk about Office 365. I can only describe what Office 365 is in sort of two words. You could say technically it's three words. But Office 365, ladies and gentlemen, is nothing but a Google butt-kicker, that's all it is.

  

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• Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

  

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• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

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• No one person is an island.

  

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• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

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• A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

  

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• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

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• You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

  

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• The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

  

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• The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • Beast
  • Cynicism