Claudius Claudianus Quotes
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the movie and more whether I think it's a good film, whether I like the character and whether I think I could do it. I don't think, 'Oh, I've done X amount of dark films.'
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
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I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.
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Late-day trading is like being permitted to bet on yesterday's horse races, ... You already know who's going to win.
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It is always too soon to quit.
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My definition of Man is, a Cooking Animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook....Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
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My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!
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He wears the rose Of youth upon him.
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All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.
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I don't like to get too involved in the idea that "I'm a role model" and that everything I do is right. I don't think that's the case at all, but I think who I am at my core, and what I represent at my core, is something that is meaningful, and can be something that other people can gain inspiration from.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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The beauty of any city is really the people within it and the people that you're close to.
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I am definitely not listening to anything remotely close to my music, at least not on a nice day.
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
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Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.
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The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
