Tacitus Quotes

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• I am a Buddhist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Buddhist

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Sea

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Confidence

• When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Women
  • Children
  • Alone

• The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.

  

  Ted Baillieu
  • Character
  • Ambition
  • First

• When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Night

• I like a cheese and pickle. Nice cheese and pickle on a real old-fashioned bread. Ploughman's lunch.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Bread

• We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Time
  • Right
  • Going

• For me, I knew the Christy flat was a beautiful shoe, but I had no idea the incredible trend that would follow – I mean, it's the most copied thing ever!

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Beautiful
  • Follow
  • Knew

• You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• I am Minnesotan.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Minnesotan

• I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Words
  • Reading

• English superiority and American obedience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • American
  • English

• Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Responsibility
  • Taken

• Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Desire
  • Travel
  • Adventure

• When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Animal
  • Survival

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • House

• Whatever is unknown is magnified.

  

  Tacitus
  • Unknown
  • Magnified