Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
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I would like my kids to study well.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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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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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I want to pick good projects, I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity. Sanity would be good. I'd like to have a little sanity!
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
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What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did.
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It's very hard to not give in, to sell your soul: to flatter a more experienced male person of power, a producer or director, in order to get what you want. You feel a pressure to flutter your eyelashes and flirt because you know that will work, and I think it's admirable to not do that.
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I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.
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I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.
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Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
