Plutarch Quotes
Socrates said, 'Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.'
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
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I like 'Star Wars.' I mean, I don't go to the conventions and dress up like Obi-Wan Kenobi or anything, but I like watching the movies.
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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Socrates said, 'Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.'
