Cato the Elder Quotes
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
Patrick deWitt
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
J. B. Pritzker
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
A. C. Benson
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
Edgar Mitchell
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I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.
Wanda Sykes
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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
Walt Whitman
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From high black walls, gleaming vaguely with rain,Each yellow light looked down like a golden eye.They trembled from coign to coign, and tower to tower,Along high terraces quicker than dream they flew.And some of them steadily glowed, and some soon vanished,And some strange shadows threw.
Conrad Aiken
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Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.
Don Meredith
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I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
Matthew Desmond
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Put it this way: If I asked, 'How's business?' and you say, 'Boomin' or 'Amazing,' I already know the answer.
DJ Khaled
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We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Mary Steenburgen
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The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
Cheryl Hines
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
Carol W. Greider
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The truly creative people tend to be outliers.
Nolan Bushnell
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Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'
Jimmy Connors
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There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place - then it won't make a damn.
Ken Kesey
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder
