Plutarch Quotes
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.
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The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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There are only two loves, whence originate all our wishes and all our actions: the love of God which does all for God and which God rewards and the love of ourselves and of the world, which does not refer to God what should be referred to him and which for that very reason becomes evil.
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If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.
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I think our cities' deteriorating infrastructure is a silent crisis.
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If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
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As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.
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Yeah, I like to gamble.
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I was something of a problem kid. I was emotional, wild, rebellious at school. I'm very touched by kids who don't have advantages; they are much more interesting than kids who have everything. They have a lot of passion and emotion, such a strong will.
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I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.
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I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.
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There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.
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Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
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It's insane to have won all those things - not possible. But what I love is learning, which never stops and is nothing to do with the medals you've won.
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Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.
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I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
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Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.
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Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
