Homer Quotes
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
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The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.
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For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
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When you're shooting you go to references in your mind. You think about how you should stand in these particular clothes, or how you should move. You think about the different characters you're playing, really.
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I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
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I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.
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Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
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Dalits have faced a unique discrimination in our society that is fundamentally different from the problems of minority groups in general. The only parallel to the practice of untouchability was apartheid.
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Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
