Claudius Claudianus Quotes
He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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I'm not a self-promoter. I'm not on TV all the time.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial debacle. After all, they and their predecessors engineered the approaching tsunami. As the situation becomes direr, the federal government's actions will grow more oppressive.
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When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.
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We have messed-up lives, but we’re good people and we have grace. And even though we don’t have to do good for God to love us, I want to do good for Him.
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You can see the future best through peripheral vision.
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Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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Do not pollute my perfectly acceptable figurative speech with irrelevant facts!
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He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.
