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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I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty.
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Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.
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Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
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"Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
