Plutarch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.
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The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.
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If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now.
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Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
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The Joker is my favorite villain of all time: You don't know his past; you just know what his plans are.
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These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade.
