Tacitus Quotes
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.
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Some Survivors get angry at having to work at recovering from sexual abuse. They feel that it is unfair. They suffered all their life because of what someone else did to them: why do they have to suffer any more pain? This anger of “having” to do something is similar to the anger they felt at “having” to put up with the abuse.
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Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
