Plutarch Quotes
When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
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In any modern city, a great deal of our energy has to be expended in not seeing, not hearing, not smelling. An inhabitant of New York who possessed the sensory acuteness of an African Bushman would very soon go mad.
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When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, 'for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot.'
