"Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I feel guilty sometimes. It may be that innate English nature - the need to think that you must've done something wrong if you're a success. It's sometimes better if you can say: 'Okay, I'm a failure; now will you be my friend?'.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea...”
“Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden”
“The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.”
“I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.”
“A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.”

Source : "Catching Up With... Vanilla Ice". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.
“When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.”
“Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”

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