Plutarch Quotes
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
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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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People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.
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I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.
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Zeroth law: You must play the game
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I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.
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You've gotta be careful because art is really important to most people, and you wanna respect that as much as possible. So I live by that rule.
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Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
