Quintilian Quotes
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.
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Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.
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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
