Quintilian Quotes
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.
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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
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To know well the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to know well the nature of princes one must be of the people.
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
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Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
