Plutarch Quotes

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Plutarch

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• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
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• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
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• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
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• People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
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• My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

  

  Dana Priest
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• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
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• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
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• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
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  • Page
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• Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

  

  Nas
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• When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
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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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
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• Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
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• If you never give up, you'll be successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Never
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• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

  Raekwon
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• There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

  

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• My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

  

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  • Country

• Oh, and by the way, I'm gonna beat you tonight, and I'm gonna enjoy every second of it. Au revoir!

  

  Gail Kim
  • Enjoy
  • Tonight
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• Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
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• ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

  

  Plutarch
  • Science
  • Force
  • Geometry