Plato Quotes
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Quotes to Explore
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
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I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
