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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Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up in Middle America or the middle of Canada. It's a very movie town.
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If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
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The true aristocracy and the true proletariat of the world are both in understanding with tragedy. To them it is the fundamental principle of God, and the key, the minor key, to existence. They differ in this way from the bourgeoisie of all classes, who deny tragedy, who will not tolerate it, and to whom the word tragedy means in itself unpleasantness.
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You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath.
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An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
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Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
