Ammianus Marcellinus Quotes
Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
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Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.
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It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
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Other people were fantastic at tapping into electricity. We'd be in a place with no electricity and they would make electricity happen.
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We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
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I've had pretty much the same crew for all the films that I've made, and I've managed to have really nice, calm, funny people. That is a big part of it, a family feeling of warmth and finding something interesting and making a platform for them to perform. It's a very difficult job, acting, in that it's totally counterintuitive to how we are brought up.
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The revolution begins at home.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
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God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.
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Every problem has a limited life span.
