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Saint Augustine Quotes

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: saint
Nationality:
Birth: 354 - 430

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Life Good Live Lives Times Also

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.

Time Comedy Place First Time First

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

You Desire Fame Celebrity Sure Just

The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.

Excellence Man Greatness Search See

I went into politics thinking that, if I made arguments in good faith, I'd get a hearing. It's a reasonable assumption, but it's wrong. In five and a half years in politics up north, no one really bothered to criticize my ideas, such as they were. It was never my message that was the issue. It was always the messenger.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Faith Politics Ideas Thinking

I don't write to a genre.

I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Texas Fence Down Always Own

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

More Started Than Encouraging Female

I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.

Small Story Special Over Everything

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Loneliness Fight Battles Against

Maybe I am an inspiration for some players. Some young players. But I don't like to speak about myself.

Myself I Am Speak Young Inspiration

I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

Dark Dig Used Working Gotten

What's personally sustainable is globally sustainable.

Sustainable Personally Globally

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