Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
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As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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There is in fact no way of correcting wrongdoing in those who think that the height of virtue consists in the execution of their will.
