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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Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.
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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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Today exists between yesterday and tomorrow.
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Civility is not simply about manners.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.
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How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners.
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The best manners are stained by haughtiness.
