Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I think I've slayed my long jump demons.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL, and I would try to picture the people inside and what they did there.
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I didn't read much SF as a kid - I was a total Tolkien geek - but I started reading Samuel Delany and Angela Carter and Ursula LeGuin in high school, and I was definitely taken with the notion that here was a literature that could explore various notions of gender identity and how it affects the culture at large.
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People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
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When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
