Augustus Quotes
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi – finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
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What's happened is that the digital age has made photography more accessible to people. Everyone is a photographer. But to do it [photography] at a certain level, well, there's a skill to it. Still, it's a good time for photography now.
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We have assurances by the president and vice president that the American side says they will follow the ABM treaty, ... Any possible plans must be agreed to, and that's what we discussed.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
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We can't look at them. We've got to go out there and do it ourselves. We're foolish if we're trying to look at the referees.
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You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical.
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
