Tacitus Quotes
Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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When I feel stressed, I turn to food for comfort, but I don't like to diet and I'm not good at it.
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
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There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it’s time to move forward.
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I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.
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Bob Weir calls me a saint, but I'm 'Saint Misbehavin'.' They're making a documentary about my life, and that's the current shooting title. I can roll with that, but otherwise the s-word makes me really paranoid.
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In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.
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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.
