Plutarch Quotes

It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

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• I don't die in anything!

  

  Kat Dennings
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• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
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• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
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• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
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• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
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• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.

  

  Zendaya
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• I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Work
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• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
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• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Die
  • Film
  • Animation

• You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Country
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  • Fight

• When you're young, you want to live fast, but you definitely don't want to die young. At the same time, you want to do things in slow, progressive manner that will benefit you in the future. Don't jump into things.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

  

  Yoko Ono
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  • Long
  • Career

• When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Dance

• Most of the people I hang out with who sing love it, and they just want to do it until they die. I still look forward to the performances. And believe it or not, they're all kind of different. Even though you sing the same songs, and maybe you go to the same venues, it just feels completely different every time you go on stage.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• It is easier to die when the heart is full of gratitude.

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Die

• The Conservative Party must make its choice. Every leader is leader only with the support of his party. That is true of me too. That is why I am no longer prepared to tolerate the present situation. In short, it is time to put up or shut up.

  

  John Major
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• Theory should be ever more demanding of our empirical resources. Simultaneously, data should be ever more demanding of the empirical relevance of theory and of the theorist's expertise in working imaginatively on problems of the world, rather than on stylized problems of the imagination.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • World
  • Imagination

• It was the saying of Bion, that though the boys throw stones at frogs in sport, yet the frogs do not die in sport but in earnest.

  

  Plutarch
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