Tacitus Quotes
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Tacitus
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
Natalie Massenet
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
H. R. McMaster
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
T. J. Miller
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
Tea Obreht
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
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They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.
Ed Asner
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
Fidel Castro
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I always had a fascination with twins.
Francine Pascal
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The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
Najib Razak
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
Edmund Hillary
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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.
Hakuin Ekaku
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I don't let other people tell me what to do. Well, unless it's my mum.
Dakota Blue Richards
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Tacitus
