Quintilian Quotes
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.
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Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.
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I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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The black people I knew came from different places and backgrounds- social, economic, even ethnic- yet the color of our skin was somehow supposed to make us identical in spite of our differences. I didn't buy it. Of course we had all experienced racism in one way or another, but did that mean that we had to think alike?
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What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
