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

• I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

  

  David Mamet
  • Writing
  • Fighting

• I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

  

  Koichi Tanaka
  • Time
  • Engineering

• For me, making music is about my whole life. The basics, the components, simple things - family, living, just going to the market and getting new fruit and veg. That's what keeps my blood flowing.

  

  Neneh Cherry
  • Life
  • Music
  • Family

• You have to create space to pull back and keep it musical.

  

  Jay Weinberg Against Me!
  • Space
  • Musical

• The thing that most interests me about writing - there are lots of things, but the thing I can't do without - is the hit of happiness a lovely sentence delivers.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Writing

• There is always something new out of Africa.

  

  Pliny the Elder