Plato Quotes
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Music comes from inside. It's not a style. It's just passion.
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A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
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The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
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At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.
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I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
