Plutarch Quotes
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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Auden is able to set up a We (whom he identifies himself with-rejection loves company) in opposition to the enemy They...
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'All right,' said Rowlandson. He began shakily to count out notes. Near-broken, he was still an Englishman; he would not bargain.
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The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
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A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
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The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.
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I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.
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I love the challenge of taking established, iconic comics characters and showing readers why they remain contemporary.
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I like to cook for myself or others, so I cook. I always read at night. Sometimes I go to the movies. I don't go out wildly during the week.
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How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
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The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"
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Neither blame or praise yourself.
