Tacitus Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
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I really love all sport. I watch sports when I can, but when push comes to show, I think I know it's entertainment.
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Most superhero characters we see these days are from foreign countries. I would like to play a superhero that shows off Korean power.
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The power of protest depends not only on how many turn out, but also on what legislative, judicial, and civil society institutions exist to enact the will of those marching in the streets.
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The biblical view is not just apolitical but antipolitical in the sense that it refuses to confer any value on political power, or in the sense that it regards political power as idolatrous.
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Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
