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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It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
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What it takes to produce a gravitational repulsion is a negative pressure. According to general relativity, it turns out... both pressures and energy densities can produce gravitational fields, unlike Newtonian physics, where it's only mass densities that produce gravitational fields.
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When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.
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We will next proceed by the lamp of experience, consulting with care the observations deposited in the records of astronomy.
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I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
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When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.
