Quintilian Quotes

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Quintilian

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It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

Joe Manganiello

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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Joan Didion

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We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

John P. Kotter

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When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records,' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America,' and for me, that was an achievement.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

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You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Tom Colicchio

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Gun violence and social justice are near and dear to my heart. And they are so connected it's sad.

Jason Winston George

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The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

Columbus Short

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Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

Brian Lumley

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There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Willie Aames

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

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In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

Phil Ochs

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You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

Pope John Paul II

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