Publilius Syrus Quotes
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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Government is not show business.
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You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.
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I was just another girl.
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Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.
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Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
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I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an awards show like the Golden Globes so early on in my career.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.
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The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.
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There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
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Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
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...he feels a stifling uselessness in things, a kind of atomic decay whereby the precious glowing present turns, with each tick of the clock, into the leaden slag of history.
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The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
