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Pericles Quotes

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: greek
Birth: 495 BC - 429 BC

Topics

Tyranny Wrong Dangerous Go Now May

We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Creativity Negative You New Done

I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.

Universe Secrets Would Like Uncover

The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.

Job Go Said Kind Radio Out

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

Michael Jai White

Myself Best People Train Go Try

Every life a legacy, every small business a school.

Life Business School Legacy Small

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

Music Knowledge Spiritual Always Big

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

Politics People Crazy Think Want Up

I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.

Life Family Love Time Football I Am

I particularly like Facebook because it straddles the gap between seeing people and not seeing them.

People Seeing Facebook Because Gap

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

Christopher Guest

Good Music Key Comedy You Find

If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

Art Creative People End Giving You

For me, growing up as an activist under an oppressive dictatorship in Uganda, the U.N. was a friend to those of us who fought our way to freedom, as it was for the millions who joined decolonization struggles in the African continent.

Winnie Byanyima

Friend Freedom Me Growing Up Growing

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