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 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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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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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 am a great admirer of Professor Hayek. Some of his books are absolutely supreme-'The Constitution of Liberty' and the three volumes on 'Law, Legislation and Liberty'-and would be well read by almost every hon. Member.
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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
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Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
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The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.
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I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on The shoulders of joyous men, to feel the heart That is the common, the bravest fundament, This is a facile exercise
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
