Pliny the Elder Quotes
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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It's not just about achieving success; the journey is equally important for me.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I think you try to improve every season and every game and be prepared about certain defensemen you're playing against, certain ways to find open ice.
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We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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There's no question there needs to be higher-paying opportunities for women. It's not that it hasn't existed in certain categories: Certain women have made a lot of money... Jennifer Lawrence... is being paid a lot of money, rightfully so, for the franchises she's in.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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And so this visit, this hallowed ground, reminds us that we must never, ever take our progress for granted. We must commit perennially to peace, which binds us across oceans.
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We live for books.
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We also call upon our Saudi neighbors to let us pursue a democratic path....In many cases, Yemeni tribal leaders and other prominent individuals have received far more generous aid payments from Riyadh than from the Yemeni government...Saudi interference in Yemen is also motivated by a fear that the Arab Spring...might soon reach Riyadh
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If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
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Mi cuerpo me separa de todo ser y de toda cosa. Nada más que mi cuerpo.
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If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.
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I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies?
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We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
