Lactantius Quotes
When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
Quotes to Explore
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
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I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
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The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
