Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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We've been allowed to operate unmolested on the fringes of the music scene, really. That's where we enjoy it most.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.
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I made records in the past that are as traditional as any other country records that have been made, but at the same time the records have a contemporary slant on it too.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
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I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.
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Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
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The only weights I lift are my dogs.
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In collecting evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it; viz. from observation on medical the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?
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Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
