Tacitus Quotes
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron.
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The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.
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Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything.
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Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
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There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
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Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
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Stephan Arkadievich chose neither his attitudes nor his opinions, no, the attitudes and opinions came to him on their own, just as he chose neither the style of his hat nor of his coats but got what people were wearing.
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.
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For most of my life - well, maybe half of my life, but basically until I was in my mid-20s - I wrote stories. From the time I was 5 or 6 until I was 25. And I read a lot of stories during that time.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Quanquam severa illic matrimonia
