Cato the Elder Quotes
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I believed I was invincible.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to tweet, 'Hey, I read your book!' - that, absolutely, I connect with that. But I also treat writing as solitary and keep it to myself as long as I can.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
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'Down we go,' said Paddy. 'Now pray to Saint Anthony if you be a good Catholic-''I'm not,' snapped Fay, 'and if you'll give more mind to the boat and less to religion we’ll gain by it.'
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Let’s see the very thing and nothing else. Let’s see it with the hottest fire of sight. Burn everything not part of it to ash. Trace the gold sun about the whitened sky Without evasion by a single metaphor. Look at it in its essential barrenness And say this, this is the centre that I seek.
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.
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If you want to be taken seriously, always check your fly.
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The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!
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It's not a question of size, of whether it's a small or a big thing, but of what it has the power to incarnate.
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When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
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Regardless of the cultural system, social pressure to appear straight seems to be fairly intense cross-culturally. Indeed, one is inclined to wonder, if being straight is just natural, why does it require quite so much policing?
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I believe every woman should have a flat, a really good wedge, and then the showstopper shoe.
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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
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I enjoy working. And, I really enjoy the fact that I get to do what I love and call it work.
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There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
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Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier...
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Running just makes me happy. I love the freedom of running. I ran until I was seven and a half months pregnant with each of my babies. When I gave birth to my first son, my doctor said I couldn't run for six weeks. I was sneaking back out after eight days.
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Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
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Even though work stops, expenses run on.
