Plato Quotes
Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
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If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
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I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep believing in myself. But something wouldn't let me – inside – I had this voice that was relentlessly hopeful, and honestly, I just loved performing and writing too much to ever really quit.
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I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.
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I have a ladybug on my wrist that I got when I was doing 'John Tucker Must Die,' and I have a tattoo on my ankle that's in Sanskrit that says 'Fearless.'
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Hollywood is a very inspiring place.
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Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.
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It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.
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When I'm out having the experiences, that's exactly what I'm doing: having the experiences. Then I can later reflect and write.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
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Since I first picked up the violin, I've been very interested in tone and texture: I would have very visceral reactions to the texture of a snare drum or a pedal steel guitar or a violin.
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Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.
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I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.
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I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.
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You'll never even catch me doing that 'soft atheist' thing of very softly singing along or just mouthing the words, looking down at a hymn sheet every few seconds to check the words. To state the obvious, as an atheist, the hymn sheet is no use to me. So I just stand there, looking straight ahead or up at the ceiling, and do nothing.
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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
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Believing everybody is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.
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It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.
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To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.
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Every market, even a socialist market, is a system of predation. Our attempt to get beyond predation has thus far failed. I do not think the right conclusion is to give up.
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I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
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Socrates isguilty of corrupting the minds of the young, and of believing indeities of his own invention instead of the gods recognized by the state.
