Plutarch Quotes
When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: 'Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone'.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.
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To be a Latin Lover a man, above all, has to be a great fucker - he has to be infallible and I'm not that. I often foul it up.
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There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
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That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
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When he was in great prosperity, and courted by many, seeing himself splendidly served at his table, he turned to his children and said: 'Children, we had been undone, if we had not been undone'.
