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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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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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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My life began with Ronnie.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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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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I never went to work on a movie set until I was a producer and director.
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You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.
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For me, I love Marc Anthony a lot. He's one of my dad's favorite artists, and I listened to him a lot growing up.
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Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
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Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.
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One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.
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I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.
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The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.
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Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.
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In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic.
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I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.
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I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
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They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.
