Cato the Elder Quotes

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Cato the Elder

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• Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

  

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• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

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• I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Everybody
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• I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.

  

  Nancy Werlin
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• TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.

  

  Landon Liboiron
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• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Proud
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• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
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• I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

  

  Sami Gayle
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• I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Knowledge
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• Part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.

  

  Barack Obama
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• 2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• I don't know why, but women in a hair salon share their deepest secrets.

  

  Penelope Cruz
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• Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

  

  Konrad von Gesner
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• I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.

  

  DeAngelo Williams

• What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.

  

  Anohni
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• I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

  

  Lou Rawls
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• An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

  

  Eric Maisel
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• I have to be entertained by what I'm writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Writing
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• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
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• Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Serious
  • Matter
  • Ridiculous