Tacitus Quotes
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
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We used to tell our receivers, 'If you want to run an inside breaking route, and you want to fight for yardage after the catch, you better be careful, because these defensive players, they're on the hunt.'
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
