Pliny the Elder Quotes
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
