Marcus Aurelius Quotes
To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
Quotes to Explore
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
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Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.
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What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
