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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• 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.

  

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

  

  Lance Reddick
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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
  • Mind
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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 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.

  

  Aldo Leopold
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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  

  Anais Nin
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• I grew up with the Highwaymen, which was Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Mom and Dad rode rodeo, so country music was always in the house and the car. They threw in some Dolly Parton, too.

  

  Christian Kane
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• I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

  

  J. F. Powers
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• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  

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• I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.

  

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• My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
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• Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

  

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

  

  Marcus Aurelius