Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Healthy
  • Torture

• As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Will
  • Someone

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Age
  • Sad
  • Find

• Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • High
  • Always
  • Expectations

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played so many dramatic roles in the theater.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Drama
  • Roles
  • Theater

• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Science
  • Intelligence

• Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Wrong

• You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Love
  • Football

• The first half of the 20th century in the United States and much of the world was an era when racial and ethnic differences determined even the most uncontrived actions. Stepping into a restaurant, boarding a train, engaging in sexual relationships, or running or voting for a public office were all ruled by notions of differences between groups.

  

  Aberjhani
  • World
  • Running

• To whom are we going to ask to be forgiven? To the one who tried to kill us? To the one who tried to destroy our country? To whom? They are the ones who must ask to be forgiven for everything they did before September 11.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Country
  • September

• It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Safety

• Simon's obviously very smart. But he's not the smartest person I know.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Smart

• A lady asked Franklin: 'Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?'. Franklin replied: 'A Republic, if you can keep it.'

  

  Benjamin Franklin

• I don't want to sell my soul or anything, but to go on a huge tour would be next level.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Soul

• One of the things that's really important in 'Queen of the Night' is how people communicate with their clothes.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People
  • Important
  • Night

• I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Art
  • Film
  • Lawyer

• I don't want to spend my time thinking about somebody else, I want to spend my time just being me and embracing life and living it and being there. At the end of the day, I'm responsible for my words and my thoughts and that's how I live.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Time
  • Responsible

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• If you get thrown out, it looks bad, ... But I took the risk, and it worked out.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Risk
  • Looks
  • Worked Out

• I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero