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?'
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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'Black-ish' is a show that has spoken to all different types of people and brought them closer as a community, and I'm so proud of the series.
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I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
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I've lived in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years, and the Lasso of Truth would come in so handy. I do think Wonder Woman would be all for the first female president!
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We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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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?'
