Catiline (Lucius Sergius Catilina) Quotes
Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.
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When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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I never thought television would or could be a long-term commitment.
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I have three young children, and I kind of stopped going to movies in 2006. I go to see some, but I'm a little bit out of touch, and I didn't know who Marion Cotillard was.
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It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.
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I don't think I'm all that twisted in my life. I'm not like some tattooed filmmaker who, you know, hangs out on the Lower East Side and is part of some satanic cult or something.
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The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
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As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
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There comes a day when people begin to say, 'Why doesn't that old duffer retire?' I want to get out while they're still saying Astaire is a hell of a dancer.
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Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself.
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You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.
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Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get
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People see a big dude and they hear that high pitched voice or "Eglasias with an 'I'" and love it because they can relate and go "I know that person!".
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In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.
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Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
