Plutarch Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.
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I read that speaking in front of a crowd is the number-one fear in America. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Number two! That means that, if you're ever at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.
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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
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We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
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Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
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I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
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I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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There are some people who must be saved without warning, and against their will.
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To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.
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νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει
