Plutarch Quotes
Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, 'Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?'
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.
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My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.
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I really prize and love great painting.
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Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, 'Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?'
