Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.
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When I had to bury my child, I probably didn't start grieving until a year and a half later.
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I'm now a member of a pretty small club.
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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.
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What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
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Windin' your way down on Baker Street,Light in your head and dead on your feet.Well another crazy day,You'll drink the night awayAnd forget about everything.This city desert makes you feel so cold.It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.And it's taking you so longTo find out you were wrong,When you thought it had everything.
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Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.
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I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.
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Part of our history includes the long struggle to pass the Chicago Human Rights Ordinance.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
