Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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I have 18 cars, but I never had a Rolls-Royce.
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I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.
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Sports saved my life.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
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Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for 'women and the lazy.' His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
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John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.
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Some men like me talkin' happy Some calls it snappy Some call me honey Others think I got money Some tell me baby you're built for speed Now if you put that all together Makes me everything a good man needs.
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Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might!
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We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
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I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!
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I don't think they packed it in. I just thought we played great defense. I thought we moved the ball incredibly well and got open shot after open shot.
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You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.
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Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
