Pericles Quotes
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
Pericles
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
Carly Fiorina
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
Sam Graves
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
Maisie Williams
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
Ian Hacking
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
Ice T
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
Haley Joel Osment
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Comedy is far more difficult, as it involves improvisation and impromptu acting, and as an actor, that came as a welcome break for me.
Divyanka Tripathi
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
E. M. Forster
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I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.
Ella Baker
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Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
Pericles
