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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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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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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It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now I've conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
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The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.
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The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Laudem virtutis necessitati damus.
