Plautus Quotes
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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.
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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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Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
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A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
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The treadmill won't run on its own; you have to put some work into this. If you're going to lose weight, you have to apply yourself.
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I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
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There's precious little to say between day and dark, Perhaps a few words on the implacable will Of time sailing like a magic barque Or something as fine for the amenities...
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
