Plato Quotes
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Clark Gregg and I are around the same age. He has been an actor and is a writer. But with a first-time director, there is a way to talk about things they might not know. Because Clark was an actor, though, he knew more about the process than most first-time directors.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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Concerning the harsh treatment of the body for our Lord's sake, I would say, avoid anything that would cause the shedding even of a drop of blood.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
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I am a contrarian.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
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With George Bush's policies, I could make an argument for how they affect black people in a negative way. You know what I mean? But I wouldn't argue that he's a white supremacist.
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Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
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Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.
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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
