Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Everyone is your friend if you say yes, but say no and watch how they react. It's been a huge life lesson for me.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
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Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?
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My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver.
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
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Who you are as a character is kind of the foundation of everything.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction.
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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
