Plutarch Quotes
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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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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 work and come home and just have a type of normal home life. It's what I've always wanted. I've never felt like I'm pressured into doing something and that I've got loads of responsibility.
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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
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They have begun to realize that when you focus only on the U.S. it gives the impression that the U.S. doesn't care about Iraqis. In these kinds of political battles you need to count your allies, not just yourself.
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When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of delivery, is the time of birth from the astrologer's point of view.
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νήπιος, ὃς τὰ ἕτοιμα λιπὼν ἀνέτοιμα διώκει
