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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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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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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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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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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I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember.
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Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.
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I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit.
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The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if you don't catch all the detail. I'm not too familiar with the geography of nineteenth century London, for instance, but I still enjoy reading Dickens.
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Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.
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The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
