Cornelius Nepos Quotes
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!
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A city with one newspaper, or with a morning and an evening paper under one ownership, is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.
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With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country.
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.
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Peace is obtained by war.
