Protagoras Quotes
You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough.
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If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
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Some members of Congress are among the best actors in the world.
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I had such a lack of respect for women that I just treated them as a hobby, trying to live up to the supposed image of Jack Nicholson and all those guys who were womanizers.
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You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
