Tacitus Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lunches, the daycare - it's the cool stuff that matters.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.
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I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.
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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
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What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
