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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I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.
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What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!
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I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.
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From Antisthenes: It is royal to do good and be abused.
