Plautus Quotes
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.
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I think one of the problems that comics has in dealing with superheroines is that they try to hard to make them superheroes. All they're doing is the same thing that men do. Just the idea that they're no different than men, except in how they look, always seemed a bit off to me.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.
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The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
