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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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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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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Texas is generally 82 degrees year round. I always tell people you don't know cold until you have been to Boston.
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Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.
