Plato Quotes

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

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• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

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• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

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• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

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• Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

  

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• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

  

  Dan Farmer
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• When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

  

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• I'm the opposite of those writers who believe that my work is sacrosanct and cannot be touched.

  

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• I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.

  

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• I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

  

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• If 'Married With Children' hadn't come out when it did, would we really be looking at 'Roseanne,' 'The Middle,' and 'Raising Hope' and being, like, 'Look at how stereotypical they are to lower-income white people!'

  

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• In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

  

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• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

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• Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

  

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• Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

  

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• I have been hired by Allah to get a wage, which if the space between the Earth and sky is filled up with pearls, still (the wage) would be more than it, for each of the questions I may answer you. Therefore, I deserve it that I must not feel tired or exhausted (in answering your questions).

  

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• I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.

  

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• I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is a design statement, an engineering marvel, and something that really redefines tomorrow.

  

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• While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I've got car data and body data all together. It's all on the dash.

  

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• The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

  

  Donald Glover
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• Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

  

  Plato
  • Honesty