Publilius Syrus Quotes
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.
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It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It's exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food.
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That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.
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When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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We are not communists.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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The words they spoke were voices that she heard. She looked at them and saw them as they were And what she felt fought off the barest phrase.
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I was run over by the truth one day.Ever since the accident I've walked this way
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‘Here we go again,’ he thought. ‘Drink and reminiscence. Another day of wasted time. They’re right when they say we drink too much out here. And we slobber too much over ourselves....We’re all sorry for ourselves because we’re not big executives or artists or happily married men in a civilized temperate climate.’
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I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.
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For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.
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I can't build myself by beating somebody down.
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What genre it falls under is only of interest later.
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The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
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Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona.
