Plato Quotes
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.
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Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
