Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
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I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
