Plutarch Quotes
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
Hansika Motwani -
The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi -
Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
Taraji P. Henson -
The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.
Olivier Theyskens -
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro, and my mother was a full blooded Chippewa.
Edmonia Lewis
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
Ted Deutch -
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
E. P. Thompson -
'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.
Raine Maida -
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
Gail Collins -
I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
Dakota Johnson -
I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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I know the Hall of Fame is the more sought-after thing. But I'm getting a bigger charge out of my uniform number being put away. Everything I worked hard for and wished for came true.
Hal Newhouser -
I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
Tcheky Karyo -
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
Samuel Gompers -
I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.
Eddie Huang -
You can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention, so that it becomes an end in itself.
Eckhart Tolle -
An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart.
Andrew Marvell
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Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the more important work has to be done where it is profoundly unsafe.
Peter Maurer -
Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be a success." Rich people understand, "If I become a successful person, I will be able to do what I need to do to have what I want, including a lot of money."
T. Harv Eker -
I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.
Jason T. Smith -
A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.
David Lynch The Platters -
It's hard, but what's the point of having children unless you're there to raise them, I reckon.
Essie Davis -
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Plutarch