Tacitus Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.
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Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.
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Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen. These two arts, you may call them both either poetry or painting, have here interchanged the senses by which they penetrate to the intellect.
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In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.
