Tacitus Quotes
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
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Morally relevant emotions are essential for living in social groups and they provide the basis on which we may construct conceptual frameworks that help guide our actions, but human beings should more accurately be thought of as being endowed with morally relevant capacities rather than innate moral knowledge.
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For everything you give an audience, you always have to take one thing away. They always have to pay for the story.
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You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.
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Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.
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I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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Mumford and Sons and Adele are both incredible artists and are great for popular music. There's a lot of club music with heavy beats, so to have that Mumford record and hear banjos being used is so cool.
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Expugnatae urbis praedam ad militem, deditae ad duces pertinere.
