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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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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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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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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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 have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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If you built yourself a mythYou'd know just what to giveWhat comes after thisMomentary blissConsequence of what you do to me
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I'm really attracted to playing strong, outspoken, sassy women. And I love playing characters who have a little bit of conflict or who can be controversial.
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The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
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I do not understand where the idea came from that opera is only for privileged people, I am as happy singing before 70,000 people at the Millennium Stadium, as I am in front of a few hundred in a small concert hall.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
