Tacitus Quotes
Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I can't remember what my first script was.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
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I am extremely lucky, and I enjoy the level of work that I am able to work at.
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Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.
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Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.
