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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I'm trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my overall game, just my explosiveness to the rim with the ball in my hands. When I play with a lower center of gravity, my legs are always in my shot instead of playing vertical out there where I don't get the same explosion or legs into my shot.
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If I could afford it, I'd buy 1,000 acres and put my house right dead-center.
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God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.
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On April 1, 1998, I launched Webmaster-Resources.com, and I remember that date specifically because it was the date that the price of a two-year domain name registration dropped from $100 to $70, and considering I was funding this out of my allowance, that $30 made all the difference.
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We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.
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Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
