Marcus Aurelius Quotes

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it.

Marcus Aurelius

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• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  

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• By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

  

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• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

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• For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
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• Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

  

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• When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
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• I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

  

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• President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

  

  Manmohan Singh
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• The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.

  

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• The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

  

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• Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war.

  

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• People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

  

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• Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

  

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
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• We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

  

  Patricia Sun
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• My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.

  

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• It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it.

  

  Marcus Aurelius