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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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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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.
