Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes
For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
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I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
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My game was always about good defence.
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It's the only way that I can do anything, even if I'm quite useless. It's the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.
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Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
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With acting, you have to become someone else. That's the fun part of it for me - to step outside of yourself and become a character. I guess being Jimmy Cliff is a little bit of a character, too.
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You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.
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I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.
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I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.
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I grew up in Middle America and in the suburbs...
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Knowing that we were doing good work and the stories were good. They were original and charming. They weren't particularly violent or sexy or any of that. They were just unique and that had a good feel to it.
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For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.
