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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...to see the light. (Last words)
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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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We would probably claim Kafka as an Irish writer. His tone of voice is certainly quite Irish: that sense of melancholy, that sense of strangeness and of being a stranger in the world. I think that we empathise with that very much indeed.
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Peace is obtained by war.
