Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.
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No process of reform will succeed without national reconciliation. ... National reconciliation will take time, but for the sake of our common humanity, and for the sake of this country’s future, it is necessary to stop incitement and to stop violence.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
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One can only blaspheme if one believes.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.
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I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.
