Plato Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Qatar has funded and helped arm ISIS. They also, as we all know, fund Hamas. That's got to stop. And we've got to use our pressure against that country to knock that stuff off.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.
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All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.
