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'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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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.
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My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.
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Being a reality star is very chaotic: it's a very dramatic job to do. I always 24/7 have to be on and ready for any type of criticism at all times.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.
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I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
