Quintilian Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
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Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New York, and dedicated myself to being a full time film actor. I had the world at my feet.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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It requires strength of character to act upon one's ideas; it requires no less strength of character to resist being seduced by them.
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Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.