Plautus Quotes

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

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• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

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• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

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• I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

  

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• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

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• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

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• I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

  

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• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

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• I am a compulsive and concise shopper.

  

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• In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

  

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• One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

  

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• I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.

  

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• Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
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• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

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• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

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• The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.

  

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• Have you ever visited the factory farms? Well, I have seen them. I've seen the chicken ones, which are quite horrifying. And I have put my head in others. But the whole thing nauseates me more than I can tell you. To see meat produced in that way made it impossible for me to eat meat.

  

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• There's a lot of 'Game of Thrones' stuff used in a lot of pastiches. I don't know if I've seen a Lego 'Game of Thrones' yet, but there must be one. And there's an animated thing that's been going on for quite some time, and Littlefinger is a newsreader in it, and it's great.

  

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• That's what is great about what I do, going from one job to the other.

  

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• I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

  

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• This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

  

  Plautus
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