Plutarch Quotes

As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,-which sort was the best. 'That,' said he, 'which is unexpected.'

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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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• 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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• 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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• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

  

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• I don't mind being pale. In high school, it seemed like everybody cared about being tan all year round, but I haven't really thought about it since then. I don't go to a tanning bed, and I get bored when I lay out. I put sunscreen on when I'm in the sun, and sometimes I get tan, but I don't really think about it very much.

  

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• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

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• A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also extends from Andromeda to your eye.

  

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• We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

  

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• Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.

  

  Sergio Leone
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• You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!

  

  Gaston Leroux
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• Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

  

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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.'

  

  Plutarch
  • Death