Plutarch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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While I appreciate horror movies, I'd love the opportunity to do something transformative, especially because people see me as contemporary. There's a lot to explore in my career that could take me back to another time. A period piece would be an incredible game of dress-up, too.
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We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.
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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow...
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I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
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I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
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Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
