Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

  

  Jackie Mason
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• All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

  

  Wendy Kopp
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• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
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• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.

  

  Ice T
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• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
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• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I was brought up by a Marxist rationalist stepfather, so I don't believe in the supernatural or religion or horoscopes, and the absolute nature of death is quite helpful for me. My husband was there, then he wasn't.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
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  • Nature

• Nature hates calculators.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
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• On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personality. Now I've been given the job of forming Superman's personality and, in some ways, drawing on my own background.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Job
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  • Drawing

• Sometimes when you're playing a very intense character, a disturbed character, you find other layers. That's much more interesting to me, rather than just playing 'intense.' I find it too boring.

  

  Irrfan Khan
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• I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

  

  Vincent Cassel
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• Yeshivas barely teach any Bible, only Talmud.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
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• A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
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• I would say the consumer Internet companies - in a lot of ways, if you go inside the consumer Internet companies and you see how they run, it's how all their businesses are going to run.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• …if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
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• The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • People

• My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years.

  

  Margaret Mahy
  • Work
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• I told my wife, 'One woman, lots of toys!'

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Wife

• I think you always take pride in how you play.

  

  Curtis Joseph
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• I never went shopping. That wasn't my thing. I grew up horseback riding. That was my passion. I didn't start shopping until about 16 or 17, when I could drive myself to stores and explore on my own.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
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• Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero