Marcus Valerius Martial Quotes
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Independence is a very subjective assessment.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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We woke up one day, and Pakistan had nuclear weapons.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
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Tariq: For you, Laila, I'd go all over the world
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
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I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
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Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift.
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He now set down all the communications apparatus, rose stiffly from the chair and momentarily stood facing the misty, immobile, icebound shape of Joe Chip resting within its transparent plastic casket. Upright and silent, as it would be for the rest of eternity.
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We are well aware that religion is not as bad an influence as it was a short time ago, as history is counted. But it is a sufficiently bad influence even in modern times, and its reduced viciousness (in practice) is due plainly enough to its reduced power.
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I’m never too far gone for you. I’m never too far gone. No matter where I go, it’s true. I’m never too far gone.
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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
