Alexander the Great Quotes
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
