Marcus Aurelius Quotes
If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year.
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
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I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.
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As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.
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There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.
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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
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Bob Hope: on being on a CBS show I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor at a P.T.A. meeting.
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Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
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Sanders is to blame for my loss, along with Obama and Biden. They never really supported me because I'm a woman. They're all deplorables, just like every registered Republican in America.
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Jihad is the Afghan bling.
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If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.
