Plautus Quotes

You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.

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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
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• I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.

  

  Daniel Boulud
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• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
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• Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.

  

  Ice T
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• I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

  

  Jackie Stewart
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• I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
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• They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • House
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• Center is a very tough position to play.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
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• My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

  

  Gail Porter
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• For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

  

  Barry Manilow
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• It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
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• I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Looking Back

• I don't care if it's a preseason game or not. You want to win.

  

  Tarvaris Jackson
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• Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

  

  Jack Horner
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• Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
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• People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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  • Discuss

• Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Circumstances
  • Fortune
  • Artificer

• Only when our love for someone exceeds our need for them do we have a shot at a genuine relationship together.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Together
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• I like that there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Drama
  • Jobs
  • Real Life

• You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.

  

  Plautus