Marcus Aurelius Quotes

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Marcus Aurelius

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• There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.

  

  Edmund White
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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
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• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Way
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  • Bat

• I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'

  

  Nate Parker
  • Movies
  • Now
  • Message

• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Children
  • Happy
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• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
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• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
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  • Focus
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• We are what we believe we are.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
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• Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Child
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• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

  

  Jerry Pournelle

• The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

  

  Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
  • Music
  • Success

• You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

  

  Lee Trevino
  • Work
  • Money
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• Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

  

  Leslie Morgan Steiner
  • Family
  • Violence

• By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Mind