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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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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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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Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.
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I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
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I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen.
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I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.
