Marcus Aurelius Quotes
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I love anything to do with history.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.
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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes - homosexuality, sexual disease, and death - about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
