Plautus Quotes
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
Edie Falco -
I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
La India -
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice -
For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
Lactantius -
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass -
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes
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Word of mouth is everything.
Gary Goetzman -
And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
Jackie DeShannon -
Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
Callie Hernandez -
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Wael Ghonim -
I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
H. Jon Benjamin -
Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?
Patrick Modiano
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There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
Camille Paglia -
The stone is broken, but the words are alive.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.
Leymah Gbowee -
To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.
Dave Ramsey -
I'm just an actor.
Benicio Del Toro -
I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.
Anne Donovan
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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
Jalal Talabani -
I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
Arlie Russell Hochschild -
I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
Lili Taylor -
There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
A. J. Jacobs -
Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st.
Plautus