Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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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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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
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If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.
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Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside.
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You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
