Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all the Porsches they came out with.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
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I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.
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I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.
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Some people have their own bowling ball and their own bowling shoes... and no friends.
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Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.
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No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
