Cato the Younger (Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis) Quotes
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
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Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.
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With the first 'Hatchet,' I had an epic battle with the ratings board. They kept giving the movie an NC-17. There is absolutely no way that movie should have gotten an NC-17. All the gore in it is so ridiculous and over-the-top that you can't take it seriously.
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I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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I do feel I have a responsibility to the youths. For real.
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I'm rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don't get sleepless or suffer from the jitters.
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Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
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You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
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They spell it 'Vinci' and pronounce it 'Vinchy'. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
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Everything is backwards now, like out there is the the real world and this is the dream.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.