Quintilian Quotes
Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
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I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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My first time coming over to North America was to New York around Christmastime when I was 7. My mom was a flight attendant, and she got put on to the Trans-Atlantic route over Christmastime, so she brought the whole family.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.
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If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.
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Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
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Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
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Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
