Tacitus Quotes
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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It's just fun to be in Paris.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I was born in a territory called Biran, in the eastern region of Cuba. It's known by that name, although it has never appeared on a map.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.
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The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.
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If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
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If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South.
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Growing up in a house where there was a lot of different musical influences - my mom listens to soul stuff and Top 40, my sisters would listen to hip-hop - and the church, I grew up listening to a lot of gospel stuff. So I think that plays a role in how I make music now because my music has a lot of range. I don't just do one thing.
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Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
