Tacitus Quotes
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
Quotes to Explore
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
Ma Jian
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
Wale
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In 'Clockwork Orange,' you're there with your eyes, watching all those things, your brain goes off, ahh, exposes you to so many things, and at the end of the day, it's just like a roller coaster. Why do you jump in a roller coaster? You want a thrill.
Fede Alvarez
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
Imelda May
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Zoe Lister-Jones
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
Calista Flockhart
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
Xavier Dolan
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
Abhishek Bachchan
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It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
Zach Galligan
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
Tanith Lee
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
Imogen Cunningham
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
Dan Savage
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
Zig Ziglar
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
Billie Joe Armstrong
Green Day
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I’m young, I’m handsome, I’m fast, I’m pretty, and can’t possibly be beat. They must fall in the round I call.
Muhammad Ali
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It's certainly a difficult time right now to try to make small, smart films. I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make something big and loud and dumb, it's pretty easy.
Terry Zwigoff
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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