Cato the Elder Quotes
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Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.
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The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.
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I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
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I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.
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Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
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Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
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I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about what each of these characters actually know, and nothing is what it seems.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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You tell the big lie by carefully selecting only the small, isolated truths, linking them in such a way that that advance the bigger lie by painting a picture inside the viewer's head. The Ascended High Master of this Dark Art is Noam Chomsky.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.