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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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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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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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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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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Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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We can be richer than industry as long as we know that there's things that we don't really need
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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.
