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Source: The Roman Way to Western Civilization

“if I'd thought that nobody would like it as I was writing it, I would have written it even more. But I never think of the audience. I never think of people reading. I never think of people, period.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Reading Audience Written Periods

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.”

People Needs Moments Remember Behinds Periods Boring Activism Heroic Frustrating Great Moments Frustrating Things

Author:Gail Collins

“Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.”

People Ideas Periods Good Ideas Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Amy Sedaris

“the myth of childhood happiness flourishes so wildly not because it satisfies the needs of children but because it satisfies the needs of adults. In a culture of alienated people, the belief that everyone has at least one good period in life free of care and drudgery dies hard. And obviously you can't expect it in your old age. So it must be you've already had it.”

People Needs Children Hard Care Age Dies Culture Belief Childhood Periods Adults Myth Old Age Be You Drudgery

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.”

People Way Periods Drama Historian Feathers Ruffles Tudors

Author:Annabelle Wallis

“We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.”

People Mean Issues Example Periods Aspect Exciting Sexuality Contemporary Like Me Indian Not Alone Nationality Trans

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.”

People Writing Play Problem Culture Felt Deals Issues Wind Periods Finished Sensitive Abstract Resolve Emphasis Always Believe Embedded

Author:Arthur Miller

“I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.”

People Should Writing Two Life Is Hate Three Periods I Hate Critics Meaningful Reviews I Have Learned Nasty Reviewers Meaningful Work Nasty People

Author:John Grisham

“Mammoth organizations, these ponderous processes. Many people don't realize that the nuclear capability that this country [USA] amassed and maintained over the period of the Cold War cost $6 trillion .”

People War Country Process Realizing Cold Periods Cost Organization Nuclear Usa Capability Cold War

Author:George Lee Butler

“Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.”

People Thinking Periods Train Breakup Unhappiness

Book:Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel

Source: Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel

“I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.”

People Ifs Voice Acting Periods Not Sure Pulling Pulling Away

Author:Selma Blair

“I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.”

People Thinking Knows Want Ideas Bigs Happens Age Stuff Realizing Like You Periods Starting Who I Am Beginners Big Stuff Approaching Life

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.”

People Ifs Way Want Needs Kind Doe Problem Energy Periods Honey Bees Want Something

Author:Montgomery Clift

“The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.”

People Remember Creative Needed Periods Brave 80s

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.”

People Jobs Energy Fun Laughing Comedy Pieces Periods Drama Teeth Dramatic Unbelievable Making People Laugh Sinking

Author:Skylar Astin

“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.”

People Real Home Existence Loneliness Periods Lonely Twenties Comedian Bizarre Cliche Poignant

Author:Paul Merton

“People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.”

People Ifs Trying Believe Whole Periods Whole Life Tics Tourettes

Author:Dash Mihok

“The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.”

People World Years Two Government Spirit United History Virtue Objects Periods Forty Two Years Sole Reign Great People Roman Empire

Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition

“Well, the best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.”

People Thinking Men Wells Hard Shows Tvs Involved Periods Right Thing Tv Shows Doing The Right Thing Brainwash

Author:Pauly Shore

“I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.”

People Real Grows Wonderful Periods Fake Agendas Real Friends New Friends Fake Friends Who Your Real Friends Are

Author:Lady Gaga

“When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.”

People Ifs Thinking Remember Life Is Certain Events Havens Regret Periods Lessons Forgotten Portions Looking Back Enjoyable

Author:Steve Guttenberg

“When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.”

People Humans Wells Suffering Stuff Periods Being Human

Author:Mary Karr

“People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.”

People Ifs Thinking Earth Dies Periods Plant Ridiculous Flowering

Author:Lynn Margulis

“Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.”

People Way Sound Teacher Happened Identity Periods Twenties Miles Great Times Great Teacher Highlights Back In The Day

Author:Herbie Hancock

“When you become rich and famous and you get a lot of attention, very few people get to go through that cycle without having a hard time. Everybody in their lives has a hard period. I don't know anybody who's ever been alive who hasn't had like, heartbreak, despair, depression, death, drug or alcohol, or weight problems, or health problems.”

People Knows Hard Problem Attention Rich Alive Periods Drug Despair Weight Alcohol Hard Times Cycles Become Rich Health Problems Having A Hard Time Weight Problems

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.”

People Years Film Fans Periods Theater

Author:Stanley Tucci

“In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.”

People Powerful Emotion Leader Class Middle Periods Empathy Educated Revolutionary Middle Class Communist Very Powerful Powerful Emotions

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“It's a very weird job to have as a musician, because you spend long periods of time alone and then you have to go work with people for a long period of time and present your music after you've been making it by yourself. It's a very drastic phase.”

People Long Jobs Periods Musician Phases Me Alone Long Periods Of Time Alone Time Drastic

Author:Angel Deradoorian

“Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]”

People Kind Opportunity Periods Office British Decades Shattered Blair Missed Opportunity

Author:Menzies Campbell

“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.”

“Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.”

People Values Risk Sea Special Periods Rose Fishing Assets Living On Risk-taking High Seas Inbreds

Author:Michael Lewis

“I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Real Country Whole Body Brain Attitude Car Stupid Periods Activity Dear Scared Drivers Dear Friend Pavement Many Friends Change Your Attitude

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.”

People Writing Years Two Ends Voice Stage Materials Periods I Realized Being True Two Years Entertaining Metamorphosis True To Myself Writing Voice

Author:George Carlin

“My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.”

People Firsts Kind Littles Might Pain Moving Pleasure Deals Pay Periods Drug Versus Cocaine Ratios Getting High Hangover Recovering Moving Away

Author:George Carlin

“I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.”

“I’ve never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period. I don’t blame some people for thinking that though, from the garbage they heard on those leaked tapes, which have been edited. You have to put it all in the proper context of being in an irrationally, heated discussion at the height of a breakdown, trying to get out of a really unhealthy relationship. It’s one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn’t represent what I truly believe or how I’ve treated people my entire life.”

“Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.”

People Ifs Hard Guy Rooms Fronts Periods Tough Get Up

Author:Doc Brown

“I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.”

People Ifs Feels Feelings Together Humanity Opportunity Energy Periods Picks Extraordinary Giants Collectives Hug Heartbeat

Author:Rob Bell

“In western civilization, the period ruled by mysticism is known as the 'Dark Ages' and the 'Middle Ages'. I will assume that you know the nature of that period and the state of human existence in those ages. The Renaissance broke the rules of the mystics. "Renaissance" means the "rebirth". Few people today will care to remind you that it was a rebirth of reason - of man's mind.”

“Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.”

People World Trying Long Sound Support Team Periods Scrutiny Assignments Long Periods Of Time

Author:Ben Burtt

“My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.”

People Years Stills Ideas Reason Might Political Certain Politics Term Forget Alive Return Periods Office Mass Regard Independence Governors Fixing Public Good Term Limits

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon. Period.”

People Clear Arms Bears Periods Constitution Amendments Second Amendment Bearing Arms

Author:Donald Trump

“As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.”

People Way Long Able Moving Used Speak Sound Acting Periods Comfort Zone Accents Comfort Zone Long Periods Of Time

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.”

People Knows Trying I Can Bits Work Periods Pressure Albums Good Work Do The Best

Author:Aaliyah

“Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.”

People Thinking World Different War Periods War Of The Worlds Different Things Second World War Think Different Different Day

Author:Nicholson Baker

“I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.”

People Stills Important Brother Periods Clothes Defined Former Hippie Brooks Brooks Brothers

Author:John Hughes

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.”

“People ask me. 'What about gay adoptions? Interracial? Single Parent?' I say. "Hey fine, as long as it works for the child and the family is responsible." My big stand is this: Every child deserves a home and love. Period.”

People Children Long Home Bigs Asks Parent Fine Periods Gay Deserve And Love Responsible Hey Ask Me Adoption Adopted Adopting Single Parent Open Adoption Adopted Children Gay Adoption

Author:Dave Thomas

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