Cato the Elder Quotes
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
Quotes to Explore
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next.
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
