Plutarch Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
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Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
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Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.
