Plutarch Quotes

Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans.

Plutarch

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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
- Never
- Eye
- Fame
A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

Adam Cohen
- Rights
- Bill Of Rights
Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.

Kara Swisher
- Mother
- Morning
- News
The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

Igor Stravinsky
- Time
- Work
- Real
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

Nathan Myhrvold
- Time
- Alone
- Universe
I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.

Maddie Ziegler
- Time
- Work
- Music