Plutarch Quotes
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
Quotes to Explore
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
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Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
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I thank God for this ten weeks' quiet before the end... Life has always been hurried and full of difficulty... This time of rest has been a great mercy.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans - in grief, as in defiance.
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Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.
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There are a lot of things we're doing wrong or we wouldn't be under .500. It's not like we're doing one or two things wrong.
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I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way.
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We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.
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Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.
