"Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality."

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Source : Gaius Petronius Arbiter (1962). “The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter”

Petronius

#People Quotes #Morality Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.”

Source : "Hellcats' star Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka talk boys and cheerleading in Seventeen" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2010.
“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
“So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.”
“Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.”
“Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.”
“I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.”

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