Marcus Porcius Cato Quotes
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
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Carrie Underwood was just a small-town Oklahoma girl with big dreams in 2005 when she competed on the fourth season of 'American Idol.' She is one of the few true 'American Idol' success stories and went on to have incredible career success.
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I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.
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Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.
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Ultimately, very few people parent their kids in ways that strike anybody else as reasoned, appropriate or sane.
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Google is not a synonym for research.
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I discover that hardly a week passes that some one does not start a new cult, or revive an old one; if I had a hundred life-times I could not know all the creeds and ceremonies, the services and rituals, the litanies and liturgies, the hymns, anthems and offertories of Bootstrap-lifting.
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If you're right, and nobody really cares what’s out there, I wonder whether we’re even worth saving.
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With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.
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Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we did not know.
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I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
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I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.
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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
