Plutarch Quotes
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.
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It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.
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To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
