Quintus Curtius Rufus Quotes
Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
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If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
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I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.
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It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it’s your own face looking back at you.
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
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Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
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In the case of the cashew, someone, somewhere, a long time ago determined that it had to be roasted. The cashew was once nicknamed the blister nut, because if you try to eat it raw from the tree, your mouth pays the price. The cashew is not a nut, however; it's a seed.
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I always like jumping spiders. They're just so darn cute.
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Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man's state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.
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The reality is institutions that invest in high growth have offices globally and talk across offices.
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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Nothing is so secure in its position as not to be in danger from the attack even of the weak.
