Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
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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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The team with the best players wins.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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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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'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he.
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Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
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Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
