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Theodor Mommsen Quotes

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

Theodor Mommsen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: german
Birth: November 30, 1817 - November 1, 1903

Topics

Peace Victory Defeat Policy May

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

Sports Bike Me Grow Acting Go

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

John Cage

Ideas One Thing Happens Thing

In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.

Jennifer Hyman

Opportunity Time Partner Early Meet

Kate Mara is actually one of my really good friends.

Jenna Dewan

Good Friends Good Friends Actually

Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

John Galliano

Work Fashion Doing Year Place Toxic

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

John Lubbock

Nature Time Water Day Sky Lie

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

Experience Anxiety Birth First Act

If I make a film about now, the minute it was done, it wouldn't be about now; it'd be about then.

Rupert Friend

Done Now Minute Film Make About

In my first year as governor, we solved some of the problems that had begun to undermine the Open Records Act. We gave the act teeth by providing criminal penalties for knowing violations.

Roy Barnes

Problems Year Teeth Knowing First

When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against class, two things are to be done: First, the work of reconstruction is to be effected; Secondly, a willingness for the proper acceptance of the issue's decision is to be created.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Work Great Decision Acceptance Done

I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

JoJo

Experience Me Hair Acting Boy First

I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.

Brandon Stanton

Moment Culture Compassion New York