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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What's the worst that could happen? You're going to come second or lose? It's not like someone has got a gun to your head.
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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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Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
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How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
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The allegiance of the citizen, in the only sense in which the word can be tolerated in a republic, is due to the law. What idea other men may have of a law higher than the supreme law, I know not. Like the notion of the Stoics concerning Fate, it is perfectly incomprehensible.
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As they were during the Cold War, urban population centers remain the most likely targets of a nuclear attack. Now, however, an attack may come without warning from an unknown enemy, to achieve unclear motives.
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I do like touring. Sometimes it's crazy. We're really lucky and we've gone all over the world. You can't complain about getting paid to see the world. I've had to reel myself in a little bit at some points.
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The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.
