Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself. You're taught not to think too deeply about things.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is filled with just drills and discipline and pain. They forget that these are humans who are in an abnormal situation.
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I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.
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Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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The prediction of my disruption theory would be that Apple won't succeed with the iPhone. They've launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It's not truly disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.
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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".
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People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.
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I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
