Plutarch Quotes
Xenophanes said, 'I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.'
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.
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Nobody needs a mink coat but the mink.
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The nice thing about my job being CSO at Facebook is that it is well understood here that there is not a trade-off between the trust people have in us and our growth.
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All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.
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Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.
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Xenophanes said, 'I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.'
