Plautus Quotes
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.
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My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.
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It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
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I haven't lived in Sweden since I was a teenager. We lived in southern Sweden, about two hours north of Copenhagen, where my family's home base has been since 1970. Our parents bought a schoolhouse in preparation for self-sufficient living. They wanted to create a place to do all the things they believed in.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
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Each man reaps on his own farm.
