Plutarch Quotes
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
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That December 1992, we Barça lost the Intercontinental Cup match against São Paulo 2–1. It was one of the few times that I had no problems with a defeat. I've always admired the Brazilian coach Telê Santana for his vision, because it always displayed a genuine love of football.
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Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
