Plutarch Quotes
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
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Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.
