Anna Komnene Quotes
They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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In Chicago, they die for their teams.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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My life began with Ronnie.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. But we have a long way to go to get our modern privacy laws in line with modern technology.
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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Living through war has helped make me pretty strong.
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I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.
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They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.
