Plutarch Quotes
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.Plutarch
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong -
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent -
I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
Nate Diaz
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks -
I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
Jackie Evancho -
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly -
You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw -
It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
Magnus Carlsen -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
Barack Obama -
All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
Taylor Dayne -
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
Victoria Principal -
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
Paloma Elsesser -
I've been getting pulled from newspapers for my entire career.
Garry Trudeau
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
LaToya Jackson -
Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it.
J. Paul Getty -
I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.
Linda Lavin -
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
Victoria Pratt -
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
William Shakespeare -
Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch