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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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
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Some men play golf. I've got this crazy thing about maintaining our nation's maritime heritage.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
