I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.
David Milch
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What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.
Bernie Ecclestone
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Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.
Paul Morrissey
ComedyFilmmakingNewKindRome
Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.
Frank Dane
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Rome is my most favorite city, so I really enjoy to stay here and the whole tournament.
Daniela Hantuchova
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
Tadao Ando
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
Naomi Campbell
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Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
Gary Weiss
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
Danger Mouse
ChangePeopleMeThoughtRomeWould
We'll go on vacation, but we don't really care to go see Rome or anything. We just want to play dominoes. We like the fact that we can say, 'Oh, we went to Rome.' 'Well, what'd you do in Rome?' 'Played dominoes'.
Jimmy Butler
VacationCareYouPlayWantRome
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
John Henrik Clarke
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Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.
Robert De Niro
RomeItalyChanged
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
Mary Douglas
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The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
ThoughtEarthRomeMoreEverything
I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a great period in life. I was very influenced by their stuff.
Clint Eastwood
LifeGreatMoviesRomeLikeStuff
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
Pope John Paul II
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Hercules King of Rome and of Annemark, three times one surnamed de Gaulle will lead, Italy and the one of St. Mark to tremble, first monarch, renowned above all.
Nostradamus
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I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.
Kevin Macdonald
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I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
Giambattista Valli
WorkLoveStyleArchitectureRome
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
Goldwin Smith
GreatTimeCityKingsCareerRome
I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.
David Naughton
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Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.
Alexander Payne
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I'm an immigrant - I've got to be in the city: London, Vienna, or Rome, but always a city.
Paul Bettany
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You look at passers-by in Rome and think, 'Do they know what they have here?' You can say the same about Philadelphia. Do people know what went on here?
Frank McCourt
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