Tacitus Quotes
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A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I'm a composer, man.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.
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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer.
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But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.'
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He saw in memory Mendoza’s face, her black eyes sad as she downloaded a chapter on revolutions.Here you go. Great heroes and the things they wrecked. Always easier to destroy something than to create something. It’s harder to plant a garden than to blow up a building, and undoubtedly more boring, but you just might need to do it one day, eh?
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.
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A number of major companies - from PepsiCo to Walmart to U.P.S. - have recognized that corporations have a responsibility to address the causes of climate change before it is too late. We do not have to wait for an international treaty or new regulations to act.
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I like the concept of dressing people. I used to not care whether people bought the clothes or not, but I kind of like it now. I wouldn't label that commercialism; it's more like I do this work because I want people to wear it.
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The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.
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He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
