Tacitus Quotes

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

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• Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

  

  Rand Paul
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• In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.

  

  Ed Koch
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• I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

  

  Dane Cook
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• Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
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• It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
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• But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Experience
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• Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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  • Sales
  • Tax

• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Time
  • Community
  • Period

• I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
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  • Art
  • Soul

• Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.

  

  Ben Carson
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• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • Audience
  • More
  • Leave

• Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word - and actually wanting to see you.

  

  The Weeknd
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• Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

  

  Frank B. Kellogg

• All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

  

  Tacitus
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