Marcus Aurelius Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.
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She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
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A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad - and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
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I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.
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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... It is a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.
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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.
