Tacitus Quotes
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.
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You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.
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A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.
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An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
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Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.
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I don't like venison or sushi - I don't want to eat what some people think are 'luxurious' foods.
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You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
