Plutarch Quotes
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do.
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I'm trying to get to bed, and you guys are singing 'The Whole World's in my fucking hand.' I'd rather you shut the fuck up!
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.
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We are thinking ahead to long-term care, aware that many folks don't plan ahead and won't be ready. We want to see to it that people will have choices.
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I like it first to be art, so actually dividing up the canvas is one of the most exciting things for me.
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The links have to be between universities, R&D institutes, and industry. If these linkages are in place, it will result in products that are useful for society. The government has to leverage the money it spends on R&D to help develop new products useful for industry.
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In the hands of the ego, marriage is a prison. It is exclusive. It is a place where people are constantly reminded of their failures and limited by the energies of another person. It is rife with judgment and blame.
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It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.