Ovid Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.
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A man is known by the silence he keeps.
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.
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I'm very particular about what I want.
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
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I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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Culture drives great results.
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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We tried to find the mayor. His secretary said he was at home. His wife said he was at the office. In Italy or France this would mean His Honor was having an affair. In Chabarovice it probably meant he'd run off to be a busboy in Stuttgart.
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You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
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Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.
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I know I speak for everyone in these islands, all parties, all our people, when I say to Mr. Smith tonight: 'Prime Minister, think again'.
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I bought a place in Milan, but Missoni headquarters are out in the country, in Sumirago. My whole family eats out of the same vegetable garden; my mother raises chickens. I love the city, but if you're always bombarded with stimulation, you get numb to it. I need to get bored to create.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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Every song falls short of the glory of what a song could be. That's why the urge is there to start again and yet again. Often it's the fault of rhyme. I've discovered a hundred times that there just aren't enough rhymes to say what I wanted to say, so I said something else instead. Sometimes it was a better thing, but the thing I meant to say went unsaid. So there's an opening for another song.
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My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.
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I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects.
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Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.
