Silius Italicus Quotes
Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.
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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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The call for diversity is about recognizing that in order to be in the conversation come awards season, it goes back to the content that is being produced.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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I have sunshine in my heart regardless of conditions around me.
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If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
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You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.
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In Hollywood, if you have any success, you have this fear: What do you have to do to hang onto it?
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There's a big difference between me and a real, legitimate working hand, or a world-champion rodeo cowboy. I play 'em, and I aspire to be like that, but those guys are tough.
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It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.
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There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
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Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.
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I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.
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Drama made me happy. Being on stage made me feel alive. But I did what a lot of people do, and that's follow this path of leaving school and going to university. It was only at university that I realised the only thing that would make me a satisfied man was to do what I loved.
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The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.
