Plutarch Quotes

He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.

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• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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• It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • True
  • House
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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.

  

  Rand Paul
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  • American
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• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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  • Urban
  • Wildlife

• Listen up, me name be Buchanan, me knows enough things bout politics. Get involved, mack daddies. Y'all better realize, that nothing be a better way to get your kicks. West side, aight?

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Believe
  • True
  • Free

• They are smoking crack.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Smoking

• Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius

• It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.

  

  Aristotle
  • Popular
  • Simplicity
  • Educated

• I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men

• I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Real

• We women manage to do many things at the same time. Men, no. Men do one thing at a time.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• It seems like Weezer has gotten better and better at getting attention for everything besides our music. Part of that is just the nature of our culture now - you really have to scream to get some attention, so people even know you have a record out that they might want to listen to.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • People
  • Music
  • Nature

• When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Done
  • Character

• I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • World
  • Technology
  • Awesome

• When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Star
  • Picture
  • Boss

• I think of the important things: how to prepare, how to practice, how to prepare to practice.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Important
  • Practice

• My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Sun
  • Gold

• You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Wish
  • Worry

• That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Wonderful
  • Means
  • No Idea

• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• When I get online, there's this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Cycle

• Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • People
  • Mind
  • Society

• He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature.

  

  Plutarch
  • Plato