Cato the Elder Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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Putin is willing to poison bodies in the free world, not only minds. Why would he do this? Why would he call attention to his murderous ways now? Well, I’ll turn that around and ask instead, why wouldn’t he? Dictators don’t ask 'Why,' they ask 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
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I'd come to the country to do my Thoreau bit, so I needed an office that looked out onto the woods for inspiration. I converted one of the bedrooms into my workspace and through its windows watched the wildlife appear each morning with the sunrise. Many were the days I would sit in wonder, coffee in hand, for hours.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
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Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
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When I go our on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
