Plutarch Quotes
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
Quotes to Explore
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
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The truth is I don't watch a lot of news, except for when I'm here at the office watching Fox News. I get my news online primarily when I'm not watching the channel.
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I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
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Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.
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I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.
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Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
