Plato Quotes
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.
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A fool is wise in his eyes.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.
