Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Quotes to Explore
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.
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I've also gotten messages from men and women who are not the most attractive, in their minds, or are self-conscious about their weight. They're thanking me for doing songs like 'Proud Mary' and shaking a tailfeather, because they say I seem real comfortable in my skin and it made them want to be comfortable in theirs.
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
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How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
