Plotinus Quotes
Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
Quotes to Explore
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
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Even though they, themselves, were material beings, they could show themselves to us only by taking on bodies that our senses were able to perceive.
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Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
