Decimius Magnus Ausonius Quotes
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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There's so much to be afraid of.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.
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If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
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My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
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Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.
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Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
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I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.
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Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.
