Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
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When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
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I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.
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I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.
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I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.
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I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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This is stupid. I now have stupid all over me.
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That’s a whole new type of stupid.
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The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts.
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I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, ‘cause any fish that is down there is fucking stupid.
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People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
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No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
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I was stupid when I started: the epitome of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It was like, 'I get to live in L.A. and drive around in limos? Really?' I didn't realize I was owned. The more money gets pumped into you, the more you become a marionette. It made me a true redneck in attitude: I never wanted to wake up ever again feeling owned.
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I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.
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So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.
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I don't consider myself flashy at all. I mean, did I dress like the average Washingtonian? No.
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What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.
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As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
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There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
