Plutarch Quotes

Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

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• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

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• Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

  

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• The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

  

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• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

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• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

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• But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party.

  

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• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

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• I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

  

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• What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

  

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• When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

  

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• Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

  

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• Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

  

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• My songs are about who I am.

  

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• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

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• The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character.

  

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• Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

  

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• Inferior guards play on the sidelines and great guards play in the middle. Isiah, Magic, Chris Paul, all get to the middle.

  

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• If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
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• In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Nature

• Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Savage
  • Disposition