Plutarch Quotes
When asked why he parted with his wife, Cæsar replied, 'I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.'
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.
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I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
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I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.
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The question 'Why do we use language?' seems hardly to require an answer. But, as is often the way with linguistic questions, our everyday familiarity with speech and writing can make it difficult to appreciate the complexity of the skills, we have learned. This is particularly so when we try to define the range of functions to which language can be put.
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I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
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When asked why he parted with his wife, Cæsar replied, 'I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.'
