Quintilian Quotes
Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
Zach Woods
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
Wale
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
Naomi Campbell
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
Adam Carolla
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
Parker Posey
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
Carly Fiorina
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
S. E. Hinton
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
Fiona Apple
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Paris ain't much of a town.
Babe Ruth
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
Zac Posen
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
Valentino Rossi
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
Ed Rendell
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
Sam Smith
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'It's all over,' he said to Cooke. 'You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.'
Bob Woodward
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El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.
Antonio Porchia
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I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.
Lawrence Weschler
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I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
Joan Didion
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Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy.
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