Quintilian Quotes
It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually – to look in the mirror and not be ashamed – has been very important in not relapsing.
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Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.
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If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
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The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
