Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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You just try to absorb as much as you can from someone who has won as many races and championships as he has. Career wise, he's been the greatest thing that's happened to me.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.
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I love small films, and I love films being seen in a theater. I love film, and unfortunately, that's being phased out.
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I'm not such a big fan of having a linear answer to things.
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Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want to be consulted. I want to know what they're doing and who's involved. And I want to see the space.' So they took me to see it, and then I realized it was major! All these red flags on the Rue de Rivoli with my name on them right by the Louvre!
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People don't always want to have females as leaders.
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
