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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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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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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I don't want to miss out on the good stuff. As long as the character is good and the show is good, the medium does not matter to me. There are a few makers that I have an enormous trust in and that I know will do an amazing job.
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I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.
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A man's work and the conditions under which it is performed are tremendous factors in determining his character.
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People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
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The ideal is a world in which every woman and girl can create the kind of life she wishes to lead, unconstrained by harmful norms and stereotypes.
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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.
