Augustus Quotes
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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I am a journalist.
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I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
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Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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I didn't even realize I was writing songs - I thought I was just being witty and sarcastic.
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L.A. has been really inspiring towards me for the last one and a half years. There is a lot going on here now. I've been here before, when I was younger, but I've never had this feeling about it. There are a lot of creative things bubbling in the atmosphere. It's so far away from everything else, which makes it a strange, exotic city. When you want to discover yourself, I think this is a good place to be. You don't feel like you are in a real place and I think that can be very good for making music or art.
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I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.
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It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
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If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.
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Livia, nostri coniugii memor vive, ac vale!
