William Shakespeare Quotes
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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We should not give $500 million to a corrupt organization that is selling unborn children's body parts.
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Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.
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She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.
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I never met Morrissey.
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I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.
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I wholeheartedly believe that travel leads to open minds and contributes to a better cultural understanding and acceptance of people from around the world.
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It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
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My uncle is a mechanic, and I wish I had paid more attention, but I never did.
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I remember being in middle and high school and hearing Demi Lovato speak up about her mental illness, and that was comforting.
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An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, singing as me.
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The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head. Nevertheless, I have been trying to elaborate some kind of representation.
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It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.
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My description of a bad manager is, 'Be good, but don't be better than me.'
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It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
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[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
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Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another!
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
