Pliny the Elder Quotes
Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she Nature abandon to cries and lamentations.
Pliny the Elder
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V. S. Naipaul
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
Iggy Azalea
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
Yanis Varoufakis
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
H. R. McMaster
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Uma Thurman
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
Umberto Eco
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
Vera Miles
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
Wayne Huizenga
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Men of patriarchal cultures have been committing heinous acts in the name of their God ever since they created a god for themselves. It seems that the earlier, goddess-oriented, nature-centered religions were far less cruel.
Barbara G. Walker
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Barry Unsworth
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
Hamza Yusuf
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
Pat Summitt
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
Ice Cube
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. Hinton
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As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.
Annie Jacobsen
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Trump’s priority in moving the embassy is a huge symbol, You’ve heard of other presidents who have started to do it but they end up not doing it, but I think he will. And I support it.
Dave Brat
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We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.
John Ruskin
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Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she Nature abandon to cries and lamentations.
Pliny the Elder
