Edward Gibbon Quotes
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
