Plutarch Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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My mother was always supportive.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
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People always think actors are really 'out there,' so you wouldn't have me pegged as one, but I knew pretty early on it was what I wanted to do, and I think that's pretty lucky.
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I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.
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I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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People on the front lines have the best ideas for how to improve things.
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In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.
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Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
