Tacitus Quotes
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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And the entity laughed at those who were crippled in the arena and lo! That selfsame thing returns to you!( Many Mansions, Chapter 5 – Karma of mockery. )
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I believe that the want of our age is not more 'free' handling of the Bible, but more 'reverent' handling, more humility, more patient study, and more prayer.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.
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I'm not a go-to-the-gym type guy. I've tried before. And I'm not a jogger.
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I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews]... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.
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…ibi boni mores valent quam alibi bonae leges. 2
