Pliny the Elder Quotes
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
Quotes to Explore
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
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Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could.
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.
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I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
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I realized that the actors that I liked and admired all went to drama school and got an agent that way. So I started when I was about 16 in drama school, and then I knew I had to wait until I was 18 so I could go on auditions, and I tried to get into one of the ones that I liked and then go from there.
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I have watched SS2 evolve over the years into an incredible vehicle that is going to open up space to more people than ever before.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
