Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
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...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
