Plutarch Quotes
For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.

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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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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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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.
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Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.
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Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.
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An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.
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I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.
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For my part, I had rather be the first man among these fellows than the second man in Rome.