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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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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My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.
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The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
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It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.
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I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.
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Why would I get a wild card into an American tournament, (as the) top-ranked American? Why would that happen? That makes too much sense. Maybe I should play more Davis Cup, that's the story. Oh wait, I do.
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit.
