Tacitus Quotes
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With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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USC has really developed my love for the cinema.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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Rock 'n' roll can be fun and dangerous at the same time.
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I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.
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I opposed annexing in areas around our city borders, because I knew that if neighborhoods wanted to be a part of the city, well, they would mandate themselves in and invite themselves into a city. That's just one example of even on a local level how dangerous it is for a politician to start thinking they know more than that individual family, that individual business.
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We can't go in the ring and think opponent is going to be like that from the last knockout. We don't know how he is personally. We have to go in there and wait and wait and wait and see what he has because he is still a dangerous opponent.
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One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.
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An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
