Publilius Syrus Quotes
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
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Reality television has borrowed so much from the world of politics, whether it's alliances or voting or the kind of strategizing that's done. Anything like that came from politics well before it came from reality television.
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How do we teach a child - our own, or those in a classroom - to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have - or need - answers.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear
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El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.
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I don't see why the young in Prague or Budapest or Warsaw shouldn't be allowed to go to hell in a handcart if they want to. They do it everywhere else and they have great fun doing so.
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
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It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.
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Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
