Marcus Aurelius Quotes
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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I'd just like to say to everybody that it's best to check out the independent life: the independent stores and the independent everybodies. We should try not to give our money to any corporations, if we can help it.
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Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.
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There is a need for a vision that's compelling and uplifting, especially in a time when people are worried. At the same time, in this era, hard work and lofty rhetoric are not going to compel you to the presidency.
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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
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We had a real good meeting before the game in New York and I think it helped us out be-cause it got us focusing on what we need to do as a basketball team. I look at the stats and see that they still shot 50 percent and they almost scored 100 points and that's not something we want to give up. That's something we've got to look at as negative even though we got a win and try to improve on that.
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As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
