Quintilian Quotes
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.
