Plutarch Quotes
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
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My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
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It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.
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This is an issue couples have to be straight on and agree on before they walk down that aisle; otherwise there is no way their marriage will survive.
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practise.
