Quintilian Quotes
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
Laura Carmichael
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
Ed Speleers
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
Carine Roitfeld
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
Hamish Bowles
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
Imran Khan
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
D. A. Pennebaker
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
Barton Gellman
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
Garry Shandling
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
A. R. Rahman
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
Oliver Reed
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
Larry Hogan
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
La'Porsha Renae
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Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.
Colin Camerer
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Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
John Lothrop Motley
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A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
Levon Helm
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Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
Quintilian