Quintilian Quotes
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.
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Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.
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An SS came toward us wielding a club. He commanded:'Men to the left! Women to the right!'Eight words spoken quietly, indifferently, without emotion. Eight simple, short words. Yet that was the moment when I left my mother. There was no time to think, and I already felt my father's hand press against mine: we were alone.
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won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
