Plato Quotes
When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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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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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.
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I don't know how many more times I'll be in New England again. But I leave coach Belichick and those guys with a salute: 'I love you guys. I miss you. I'm out.'
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One of my thoughts on the back nine was 'I don't know how Tiger has won 14 of these things,' I couldn't feel my legs on the back nine.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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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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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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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 don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
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When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.
