Publilius Syrus Quotes
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
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There are great fans in Chicago. I think you'd rather have them recognize than not recognize you.
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I ain't here to tell nobody what's right or what's wrong.
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What you can't enforce, do not command.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.
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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
