Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) Quotes
The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
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This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.
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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
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America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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Well I don't know why I came here tonight.I got the feeling that something ain't right.I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs.Clowns to the left of me,Jokers to the right, here I am,Stuck in the middle with you.
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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
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In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.
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Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.
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People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
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I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
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If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.
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I've said no to shows that have been on the air for six years because they weren't what I wanted to do.
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It is unpleasant for the players, when the organizers arrange for play to take place in the morning. The games from such last rounds, in view of the large number of mistakes, are not fit for publication!
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We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.
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In 'Kinky Boots,' I looked for moments to be bold, showing Lauren's gutsiness and smarts. She's a little bit kooky now, too, and I love me some kooky.
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The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.
