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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We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.
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Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.
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You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.
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Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind.
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You really need to learn how to turn it on for 'action' and off for 'cut.'
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
