Lucretius Quotes
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.
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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
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I've worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing.
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There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.
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The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.
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'What happened?' Arthur asked. He caught a glimpse of something below, but couldn't quite make out what it was. 'The Nithling-' 'Missed me,' called out Suzy. 'Close-run thing. Bit off my right clog. I was kicking it in the teeth, so I s'pose that's fair.'
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Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
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Every woman is insecure, no matter how beautiful they are.
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I don't come from a musical family and didn't go to Julliard or anything, but I had this kind of vision of stuff that was so powerful that I just needed to find it. I have no regrets.
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My whole mentality is that I eat what I want within moderation, and I have a little bit of everything. If you deprive yourself, you get moody and unhappy, and you have to enjoy life.
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I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.
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Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.
