Livy Quotes
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.
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There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.
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Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.
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I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.
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I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
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I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
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After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical.
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Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands.
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I elevated passions into duties. (p.s. That's not enough…)
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
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Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
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I can never find the right bras.
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The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.
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Denial is an ugly thing.
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All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
