Tacitus Quotes
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.
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I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore.
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There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.
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Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
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Women artists are still treated differently from men.
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It used to be you wanted to marry up.
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[ John F.Kennedy's friend] Chuck Spalding at the wedding said Jack was two guys: the groom and somebody else observing from a distance. ... It must have been maddening to be married to a guy like that, but you could at the same time argue that characteristic kept the world from being blown up.
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If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.
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When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.
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Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
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I'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.
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In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.
