Marcus Aurelius Quotes

Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)

Marcus Aurelius

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• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

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• True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.

  

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• For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?

  

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• No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.

  

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• If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.

  

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• I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

  

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• While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

  

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• I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

  

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• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

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• A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'

  

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• I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.

  

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• Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.

  

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• As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

  

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• I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body.

  

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• Here is where the predictions failed: We didn't take Cargo Cult mentality into account: 'if somebody has something I don't, he must have stolen it.' We didn't understand how good we could get at communication - when you have something that someone else doesn't, the whole damn planet knows it.

  

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• If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.

  

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• One of the torturous things about my job is that, as time goes on, you get more and more clarity on all the things you've screwed up and all the mistakes you've made.

  

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• God, give us Peace! not such as lulls to sleep,But sword on thigh and brow with purpose knit!And let our Ship of State to harbor sweep,Her ports all up, her battle lanterns lit,And her leashed thunders gathering for their leap.

  

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• In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

  

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• A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.

  

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• religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all.

  

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• Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius