Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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My biggest challenge is cooking traditional French dishes, which usually require very specific techniques and methods. That's just not my style... I cook from the soul.
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I told everyone who was ready to listen that I had material with pentagonal symmetry. People just laughed at me.
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I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
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We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.
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My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
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We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Over the years, Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
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As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.
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Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
