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?'
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My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
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We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
