Tacitus Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
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I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.
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Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, 'God forbid that it should ever befall me!'
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There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.
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While I am a huge proponent of us as Africans telling our own stories and countering the negative stereotypes out there since no one else will, I am also cognizant of the power that the mainstream Western media still has on shaping perceptions of the continent.
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So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
