Marcus Aurelius Quotes

In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
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• You think about taking audiences on a journey.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
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• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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  • Tradition
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• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
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• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
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• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
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• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

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• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

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• And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

  

  John W. Snow
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• I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.'

  

  Jennifer Konner
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• I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

  

  Armie Hammer
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• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Art
  • Morning