Pliny the Elder Quotes
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I'm an atheist and a humanist, so I have no desire to evangelize anyone.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
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I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I am walking proof of the power of prayer.
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It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
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And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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It was the technique of a man who selected thoughts as one might select pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In due course they would be reassembled together so as to make a clear and coherent picture. At the moment the important thing was the selection, the separation.
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Forget bad deeds, even the good we do are full of mistakes.
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I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.
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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
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The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
