Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn't only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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I love design.
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When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like a part and personally, I love to watch comedies. If you don't get to do what you like to watch you get frustrated.
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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
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The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gentlemen is a rupture from previous work as its obsession is with the psychology of characters who are in states of unknowing living in unpredictable times where the stakes are unusually high.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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Experiencing flow helps a person remember that they are unique. ... Just like everyone else.
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
