Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Quotes to Explore
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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At about 17, I decided I wanted to take kiteboarding seriously and compete, so my agents were like, 'Just keep sending in a few audition tapes anyway, just for good stuff.'
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
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My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.
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In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.
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So much of human life is animal life: we respond to each other as animals.
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When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.
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When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
