Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara Sher -
I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
Callie Khouri -
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Saint Ignatius -
My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
Pat Barker -
My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
Karan Johar
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
Gary Goetzman -
In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
Mads Mikkelsen -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams -
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
T. J. Miller -
I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
Vince Vaughn
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
Ira Glass -
Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
Vicki Delany -
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
Eddie Huang -
I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
B. D. Wong -
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West -
At a certain moment, when I started doing my own shows, I felt it would be really interesting to know what is the history of my profession. I realized that there was no book, which was kind of a shock.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
William Shakespeare -
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.
C. S. Lewis -
When I modeled, I lived in Europe and worked all the time. I did runway, and that's all I did.
Andie MacDowell -
I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
David Brenner -
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero