Plato Quotes
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke -
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
Natasha Little -
I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
Lana Wachowski -
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
Damon Galgut
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I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.
Ed Bradley -
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
Karen Kain -
I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.
Zadie Smith -
I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
Laura Bush -
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
Barbara Corcoran -
I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.
K. D. Lang
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It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.
G. Willow Wilson -
David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
Kate Christensen -
I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years.
Nancy Jo Sales -
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
Walter Gropius -
I like Barrington Leavey; he's the best, and Toots and The Maytals are also the best.
Adam Lamberg -
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill
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Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, 'You're a disgusting, drunken mess.' And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
William F. Nolan -
It might interest you to know that the 1828 Noah Webster Dictionary identifies the optimist in complimentary terms, but says nothing about the pessimist. The word 'pessimist' was not in our vocabulary at that time. It's a modern 'invention' which I believe we should 'dis-invent.'
Zig Ziglar -
I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.
Adam Rippon -
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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