Marcus Aurelius Quotes
It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. (Hays translation)
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
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Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.
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Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
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Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
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It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. (Hays translation)
