Cassius Dio Quotes
Marcus Aurelius used people for the tasks they excelled at and praised them for it. Used to say it was impossible to make men as we would like them to be but was fitting to use them where they were useful.Cassius Dio
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
Baz Luhrmann -
I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
Ioan Gruffudd -
Anyone can look beautiful.
Rachel Hunter -
It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
Warren Christopher -
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
Kacey Musgraves -
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Jackie Collins
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I myself have raised plenty of questions about Sarah Palin, much to the annoyance of the McCain campaign. But those questions have been about her qualifications and experience, never her appearance.
Brown Campbell -
My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
Patrick Dempsey -
We should never have a doubt about Taiwan's independent status. Taiwan has been an independent and sovereign country since 23 March 1996, the day of its first direct presidential election.
Annette Lu -
The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
Anand Giridharadas -
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Mason Cooley -
I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.
Ariel Garten
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You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.
Amin Maalouf -
People need to learn to live with more risk.
Alain Robert -
I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.
Cole Sprouse -
I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.
Christy Turlington -
There are millions of people who do want help. I'm not going to waste my time convincing people who aren't receptive.
Jillian Michaels -
When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
E. W. Howe
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Pushing people forward simply because of their colour, irrespective of merit, would be most unfortunate and would of course lead to disaster. It would mean that Rhodesia would then develop into a kind of banana republic where the country would in no time be bankrupt.
Ian Smith -
A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
Matt Groening -
We must show charity towards the sick, who are in greater need of help. Let us take them some small gift if they are poor, or, at least let us go and wait on them and comfort them.
Alphonsus Liguori -
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya -
Marcus Aurelius used people for the tasks they excelled at and praised them for it. Used to say it was impossible to make men as we would like them to be but was fitting to use them where they were useful.
Cassius Dio