Plutarch Quotes
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I often reread books I have written.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
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At all levels - with men and women - the 3-point shot has utterly transformed the way the game is played. More and more, the players are spread out, looking to pop behind the 3-point arc.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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In Bollywood, the film's stakes are as high as the actor. In Hollywood, they are way above, and the day we realise this in our industry, we will start appreciating actors.
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Instead of using medicine, better fast today.
