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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The scale of time for a politician runs between one primary and the next, and in Israel, this means two to three years because elections almost never take place once every four years as stipulated by law. The timetable for a system of research is completely different.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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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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I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
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I felt good out there. A bit nervous, but determined and positive.
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The catcher is a groundhog. He's a guy squatting down, digging for the ball in the dirt, and sweating under a pile of uncomfortable protective gear while his knees creak.
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
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If I do cardio I'll disappear.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
