Plutarch Quotes
As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,-which sort was the best. 'That,' said he, 'which is unexpected.'
Quotes to Explore
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.
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Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
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Why do predictions of the Death of the West not belong on the same shelf as the predictions of 'nuclear winter' and 'global warming'? Answer: the Death of the West is not a prediction of what is going to happen, it is a depiction of what is happening now.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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The more you observe nature, the more you perceive that there is tremendous organization in all things. It is an intelligence so great that just by observing natural phenomena I come to the conclusion that a Creator exists.
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As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,-which sort was the best. 'That,' said he, 'which is unexpected.'
