Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Quotes
An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will return the intended mischief with interest.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one.
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No man fails who does his best.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
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It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
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I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.
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A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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Hinduism is like the Ganga,, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every provinvce, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.
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What people pray for will tell you more than anything else whether they are locked into the vision and priorities of the church.
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I don’t see any dearth of women leaders, it’s a question of what we consider a woman leader.
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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.
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An ambuscade, if discovered and promptly surrounded, will return the intended mischief with interest.
