Socrates Quotes
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.Socrates
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
Kangana Ranaut -
My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
Nathan Fillion -
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen -
I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
Victoria Justice -
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee -
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
Carl Wilson -
The most precious things in speech are pauses.
Ralph Richardson -
I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
Laini Taylor -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes -
At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
Candice Swanepoel -
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
E. L. Doctorow -
It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
Dale Evans -
I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
Bebe Moore Campbell -
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu -
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom
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I could never see myself playing a goblin or gnome, without some serious CGI at least!
Kristian Nairn -
Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death
Cressida Cowell -
Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
Brad Stone -
I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
Kate Christensen -
I'm generally pretty happy about life.
Phyllis Smith -
It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
Socrates