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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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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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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Billie Jean King is one of the all-time tennis greats; she's one of the superstars. She's ready for the big one, but she doesn't stand a chance against me. Women's tennis is so far beneath men's tennis; that's what makes the contest with a 55-year-old man the greatest contest of all time.
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Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.
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Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."
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He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did.
