Boethius Quotes
Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.
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The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
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In fact, we have a choice of freedom of heart to follow God.
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In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'
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You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'
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Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting.
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I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody.
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We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
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I can cook a little bit. I can cook a few Spanish dishes. But, in movies, it looks like I cook much better than I cook.
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The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.
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There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
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She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.
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I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my new friends from D.C. said it, laughing, and even though I didn't know what it meant, exactly, I got that it was some kind of insult. I must have smirked or shrugged, which made him laugh harder, and then he called me 'country,' too.
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Surrender, but don’t give yourself away.
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Adeo nihil est miserum nisi cum putes, contraque beata sors omnis est aequanimitate tolerantis.
