Plutarch Quotes
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,-nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.
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If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,-nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
