Plutarch Quotes
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No one remembers who came in second.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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When you mutilate movies for mass media, you tamper with the hearts and minds of America.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
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Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study.
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Sometimes readers want some escapist fun, to get lost in the story. But light-hearted romantic stories can and should star all kinds of girls.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.
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Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
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It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
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We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.
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It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
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I'm an entrepreneur, so I've got to be ruthless about 'me' time if I want to have any left to myself! I make myself leave the office by 8 or 9 P.M. most nights, even if I do curl up with my laptop and a glass of wine at home to get through email.
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I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
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You are going to have bad days and have good days.
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Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
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We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
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Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.
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Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
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Come back with your shield - or on it.
