Sallust Quotes
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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Truthfully, the person with whom I identified most in Heinlein's early works was Rhysling in 'The Green Hills of Earth.'
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
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Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.
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All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other.
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I have no pity for myself either. So let it be veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired from work and come here to grow vegetable marrows.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
