Quintilian Quotes
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony. Very senior figures tell me their hairstylist wants to do my hair for free. It's surprising. People from television are interested almost exclusively in aspects of my hair and my hairdresser.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.
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I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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When the Americans see someone like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, who made billions thanks to their talent and determination, the first thing they say to themselves is, 'I want to be like him.' This, in many ways, is the engine that drives Western society: The desire to make it like the winners.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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We hope to make some progress as they day goes on. Obviously we want to get up to full strength as soon as possible.
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With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
