Quintilian Quotes
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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I don't know what love means.
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What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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Although I am not Jewish, I have been to many Friday night Shabbats at my friends houses, and I absolutely love it. It's a great and inspiring tradition to keep the family close.
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I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.
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It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
