Pliny the Elder Quotes

There is always something new out of Africa.

Pliny the Elder

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• Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Know
  • Never

• Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • War
  • History
  • Hope

• Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Good
  • Great
  • Think

• I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Control

• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hand

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Great
  • Saint
  • Claim

• It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Hollywood

• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Success
  • Feel
  • Theory

• I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Why
  • Always
  • Mistakes

• I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Past
  • Education
  • Learning

• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame, my brother Blackshirts, until it illuminates Britain and lights again the paths of mankind.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Together
  • Brother
  • Lit

• To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Doubt

• Mr. Trump may talk a big game on trade, but his approach is based on fear, not strength. Fear that we can’t compete with the rest of the world even when the rules are fair. Fear that our country has no choice but to hide behind walls.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Country
  • May

• Stunts are really fun.

  

  Ty Simpkins
  • Fun

• Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

  

  George Eliot
  • Childhood
  • Meaning
  • Retrospect

• These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Opportunities
  • Prescriptions
  • Immigration rules

• What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Children
  • School
  • War

• I didn't feel the need to tell people, except for a very, very few, as it was not in any way affecting my work.

  

  Chris Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Way

• There is always something new out of Africa.

  

  Pliny the Elder