Tacitus Quotes
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.
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I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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A mom has to be ready for anything.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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The kindness that's been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it's really saved my life.
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People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't know.
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What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.
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I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
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My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
