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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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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God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?
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Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
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Fabulosity. It's a state of being.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
