Homer Quotes
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
Quotes to Explore
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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Many more schools can be outstanding.
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I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.
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The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
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I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.
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In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
