Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
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I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent.
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Fairy tales-simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.
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That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
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Even miracles take a little time.
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I've done TV and I've done film, and I'm not snobby about it. It's about the project.
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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
