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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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'?
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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.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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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.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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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.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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The living room is where we come to think, to slow down the world for a second.
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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.
