Marcus Aurelius Quotes
The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. (Hays translation)
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away. Of course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.
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I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
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In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.
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I'm the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.
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The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?
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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. (Hays translation)
