For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
John Lothrop Motley
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Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.
Amanda Hearst
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There is an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. It seems the administration so often clearly believes that no matter what the evidence was at any particular time, essentially everything led to Saddam Hussein.
Ron Wyden
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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Michael Mandelbaum
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There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.
Connie Francis
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I love watching 'Game of Thrones,' 'Rome,' and 'Spartacus' from the period dramas genre.
Ashish Sharma
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'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are always going to be offended by it.
Tobias Menzies
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Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.
Muhammad Ali
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If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy.
Godfried Danneels
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Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world.
Erin Heatherton
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When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
Bikram Choudhury
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About the time of the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome, the Etruscan power had reached its height.
Theodor Mommsen
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I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
Isabella Rossellini
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Unlike settled, patriarchal societies such as classical Greece and Rome, where women stayed home to weave and mind children, the lives of nomadic steppe tribes centered on horses and archery.
Adrienne Mayor
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Taylor Caldwell
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Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
Paolo Sorrentino
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
Hans Kung
AmericanRememberSaidRomeUp
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
Camille Paglia
HistoryThinkingViewLongRome
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
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As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
Rowan Williams
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Livy
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From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.
Conrad Black
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