Plato Quotes
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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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 didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.
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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.
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Moore's new book, Dude, Where's My Country?, contains ten chapters of fulminations convincing the convinced. However, Moore does include one chapter on how to argue with a conservative. As if. Approached by someone like Michael Moore, a conservative would drop a quarter in Moore's Starbucks cup and hurriedly walk away.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
