Augustus Quotes

I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

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• I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

  

  Wayne Rogers
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• I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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  • Wanted
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• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
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• Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

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• I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

  

  Dan Stevens
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• I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Life
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• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
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• I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Good
  • Age
  • Always

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
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• In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Just
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• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
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  • WIld

• For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Writing
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• When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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• I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.

  

  Gary Carr
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• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age
  • Colonial

• When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • Without
  • Intention

• My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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• When I portrayed Shiridi Sai, I changed as a person.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

• The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

  

  Bruce Chatwin
  • History
  • Taken
  • Anxiety

• I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.

  

  Augustus
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