Quintilian Quotes
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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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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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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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I think hitting's just repetition. The more you hit, the better you're gonna get.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin.
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Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.
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Money does not buy anyone the right to tell Israel what to do, but long-term involvement, dialogue, and care demand that we must listen.
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.
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Pectus est enim quod disertos facit, et vis mentis.