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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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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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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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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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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When people evaluate their life, they compare themselves to a standard of what a successful life is, and it turns out that standard tends to be universal: People in Togo and Denmark have the same idea of what a good life is, and a lot of that has to do with money and material prosperity.
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I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.
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I thought we were despondent when we came out of that regular time, going into overtime and played like it the first three minutes, but we found some energy at the end.
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Language is a sense, like touch. (p. 271)
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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?'
