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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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The times when black women have been successful in confronting and overcoming the structural and institutional sexism and racism that persists in our society have been when we are thoughtful and strategic about speaking up. It's when we've done what it takes to introduce and implement our ideas and our plans to make things better.
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
