Tacitus Quotes
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
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My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress, she still had to do a lot of sewing. The more I think about her, the more remarkable I realise she was. And she understood straight away when I said that I wanted to write.
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He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
