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.
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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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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 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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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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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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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I was never really good in school.
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a thing conjuring up reality in our mental image. That is why I don't see any contradiction between abstract and figurative art either.
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Common sense is the best prophet.
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Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.
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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.
