Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and for 99.99999 percent of the world, it's useless. It's meaningless. But for my mother, she loves it.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
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Kirmizi biber has a sweet aroma and can vary in spiciness.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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We all in real life put on these masks - we don't swear when we're around certain people... When we come home, when you're on your own I'm sure you're really different than when you're with your boss.
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The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
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If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
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Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
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The light of conscience ... enters the eyes of the soul, as the light of the sun enters the eyes of the body; and to open the former requires no greater effort than to open the latter.
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We trained for a lot more malfunctions than any ever happen.
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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
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Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
