Alexander the Great Quotes
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
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Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
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I'm a proud Welshman.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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Thank you … San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you … for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
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When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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He imagined over and over the few moments they had together, kiss and touch and stickiness, until those moments congealed to a single kiss, a single touch: a pearl. Then even her face was lost in a blur, only the smallest sensation remained. And then nothing. He was over forty now. He thought of her but the sensuous arousals that once troubled him no longer stirred in him the same seismic memory: he didn't feel hate, or distance, or love, or passion. Only safety. Nothing can touch me now. Only pity. What will you do, whom I cannot save?
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Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
