Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Work is what saves you.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
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When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
