Livy Quotes
The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
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I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.
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What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.
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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
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The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
