Saint Augustine Quotes
If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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Pilates is great.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave.
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When we are caught up in a destructive emotion, we lose one of our greatest assets: our independence.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.
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If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.
