Plutarch Quotes
When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, 'Yes,' said he, 'I would have you stand from between me and the sun.'
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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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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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Wretched un-idea'd girls.
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Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
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Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.
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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
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When Alexander asked Diogenes whether he wanted anything, 'Yes,' said he, 'I would have you stand from between me and the sun.'
