Plutarch Quotes
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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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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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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I think there is a special bond between Carolina athletes. A lot of people seem to wear our gear because it is fashionable. They love the colors. It's Michael Jordan's school!
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The sense in which an automatic door 'understands instructions' from its photoelectric cell is not at all the sense in which I understand English.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
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I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion.
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Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.
