Plutarch Quotes
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
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The only thing I'll say in defense of basically the entire conservative media is that, except for a few talk radio hosts, my twitter feed, I guess Brietbart, and Daily Caller is everyone seems to dislike Richard Spencer. He is you know our equivalent of Black Lives Matter. Apparently you know a gay showboater who just wants lots of media attention.
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I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
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The last time I did a movie that needed a horse, I said: 'If it moves, I'm out of here.' The worst thing is, they know when you're afraid and act up accordingly. I've had them run off on me. Horses I do not like.
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It's very hard to go out and make big investments to take advantage of the shale energy if we don't know if it's always going to be there, what price it's going to be there, whether the country's going to allow it to be exported, or whether it's going to go and affect subsidized U.S. manufacturing.
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That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.
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Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
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I hate the idea of genres.
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I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.
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The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
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Trump is a systemic stress test.
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When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.
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It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.
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Kung fu: You've got to spend your whole life at it before you're kung fu.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
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I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
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You realize that everything is a moving budget, and sometimes you've got to borrow from Peter to pay Paul, to make it happen.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.
