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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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
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Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
