Plautus Quotes

The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.

Plautus

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• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

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• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

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• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

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• I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

  

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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

  

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• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

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• I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

  

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• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

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• I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  

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• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  

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• And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

  

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• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

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• Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't break your heart trying to get it. And don't pick up too many checks!

  

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• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  

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• Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

  

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• What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  

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• I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.

  

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• Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.

  

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• Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.

  

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• I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  

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• Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.

  

  Hafez
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• The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.

  

  Plautus